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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Jamie Reed on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance his Department gives to teachers and teaching support staff on supporting children with type one diabetes.

Edward Timpson

Non-statutory guidance, ‘Managing Medicines in Schools and Early Years Settings, is available to schools to help them manage medicines and supporting children with medical needs.

From September 2014, there will be a new duty, (introduced in the Children and Families Act 2014), on governing bodies of maintained schools (and proprietors of academies) to make arrangements to support pupils at school with medical conditions and to have regard to statutory guidance. The guidance (upon which we have consulted publicly) will set out the requirements on schools to support children with medical conditions, which we would expect them to apply to conditions like diabetes.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Andy Slaughter on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of free schools have changed their headteacher since opening.

Edward Timpson

The information requested is not held centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Andy Slaughter on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of maintained schools have changed their headteacher since September 2011.

David Laws

The information requested is not held centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Andy Slaughter on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many Sure Start centres have reduced the services they offer since May 2010.

Elizabeth Truss

Local authorities are responsible for, and retain the flexibility for, children’s centres provision in their area. They have a statutory duty to consult if any changes are planned and to ensure there is a sufficient number of children’s centres to meet the needs of their local communities.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Andy Slaughter on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of state-funded schools that have opened since September 2011 have changed their headteacher since opening.

David Laws

The information requested is not held centrally.

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Simon Burns on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many pupils in (a) Chelmsford constituency and (b) Essex continued into (i) further education, (ii) higher education (iii) apprenticeships in each the last five years for which figures are available.

Matthew Hancock

Destination Measures data, following key stage 4 and key stage 5, are published at local authority level for the years 2009/10 and 2010/11. Parliamentary constituency level data are published for 2010/11 only.

The requested data, for the available years, are shown in the attached tables.

The information is taken from Statistical First Release data, which is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-destinations

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The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mr Barry Sheerman on 2014-03-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps he is taking to improve the education of children on the autistic spectrum.

Edward Timpson

Children on the autism spectrum will benefit from the changes to the special educational needs system which the Government is bringing about through the Children and Families Act 2014, including the strengthened arrangements, through 0-25 Education, Health and Care plans, for the transition from children’s services to adulthood which young people with autism can find particularly difficult.

The Department for Education is funding the Autism Education Trust to provide training to early years, school and further education staff on autism. From January 2012 to February 2014, 22,451 staff have received level 1 basic awareness training, 3,214 have received level 2 hands-on tools and techniques training and 775 have received level 3 training for those who want to develop their knowledge of autism further and those who will themselves take on a training role, such as school Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators.

The Department is also funding three autism organisations from 2013 to 2015, including Ambitious about Autism, to work with four general further education colleges and schools to test innovative ways of supporting the transition of young people with autism from school to college and the National Autistic Society to help young people with autism take part in the development of ‘local offers’, to provide advice to professionals and to fund an exclusion adviser for parents and professionals.