I refer the hon. Member to the answer my hon. Friend, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, the member for Saffron Walden (Mrs Kemi Badonoch) gave on 5 September 2019 to Question 281573.

The Department publishes data on donations and voluntary contributions to schools at national and local level which can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data.

The data set includes school income and expenditure data for the financial years 2009-10 to 2017-18 for local authority-maintained schools, and for the academic years 2011-12 to 2015-16 for academies.

A detailed breakdown by school is available at the following link: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.

The data set includes school income and expenditure data from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for local authority maintained schools and from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for academies. The data is not available at constituency level.

The Department publishes data on donations and voluntary contributions to schools at national and local level which can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data.

The data set includes school income and expenditure data for the financial years 2009-10 to 2017-18 for local authority-maintained schools, and for the academic years 2011-12 to 2015-16 for academies.

A detailed breakdown by school is available at the following link: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.

The data set includes school income and expenditure data from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for local authority maintained schools and from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for academies. The data is not available at constituency level.

The Department publishes data on donations and voluntary contributions to schools at national and local level which can be found at the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-local-authority-school-finance-data.

The data set includes school income and expenditure data for the financial years 2009-10 to 2017-18 for local authority-maintained schools, and for the academic years 2011-12 to 2015-16 for academies.

A detailed breakdown by school is available at the following link: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/Help/DataSources.

The data set includes school income and expenditure data from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for local authority maintained schools and from 2013-14 to 2017-18 for academies. The data is not available at constituency level.

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.

The distribution of donations across all schools can be seen on the schools financial benchmarking website: https://schools-financial-benchmarking.service.gov.uk/.

Schools have historically generated income to bring communities together as well as to bring in extra funding, over and above schools’ core budget. There are many types of income generation, which range from letting out premises to beetle drives. Overall, schools generate around £1.3 billion a year, which is roughly 4% of the schools’ budget. Income specifically from donations and voluntary funds has remained steady at about 0.7% of schools’ overall budgets since 2011-12.

As set out in the Department’s Supporting Excellent School Resource Management strategy, the Department intends to publish guidance for schools on these issues.

The Department’s Mental Health and Behaviour guidance includes links to sources of information and support, including on how to respond to bereavement and other traumatic events. This includes MindEd, which the Government has funded to provide online advice and training on mental health for all professionals working with children and young people. Information on MindEd is available here: https://www.minded.org.uk/.

The Department has also provided advice to schools on how to provide access to high quality school-based counselling, available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/counselling-in-schools.

Where children need specialist support, it is important that schools are able to make referrals quickly. The NHS long term plan sets out how specialist mental health support will be increased, including through access to crisis care 24 hours a day by 2023/24. It also includes support for at least an additional 345,000 children and young people to access NHS funded mental health services, including through new mental health support teams linked to schools and colleges.

I do recognise, of course, that that school and all schools need the right resources. I am also very happy to join the hon. Gentleman in his congratulation and commendation of Ms Clifton and all the staff, pupils and parents at the school.

Schools have an important role to play in helping equip children with the knowledge they need to make healthy choices for themselves and creating a healthy environment for children to learn and develop a lifelong habit of physical activity.

Many Department for Education policies, some of which are already being delivered, are expected to make a direct contribution to reducing the incidence of childhood obesity, such as the introduction of universal infant free school meals, the school food standards, the addition of food education in the national curriculum, and the primary physical education (PE) and sport premium. We are not complacent however, and recognise that there is more to do.

The doubled primary PE and sport premium provides £320 million per year to improve the quality and access to PE and sport for primary age pupils to develop healthy habits early. We have also invested significant funding in measures to increase cycling and walking to school.

Sport England supports our efforts to engage inactive children to take up sport and physical activity by investing in programmes like the School Games and Satellite Clubs. Sport England is also providing specialist training free of charge to teachers in every secondary school in England by 2020, which will help teachers better meet the needs of all children, irrespective of their level of sporting ability, and involve them in shaping the sporting opportunities that are on offer.

The School Food Standards provide the legislative framework to ensure schools provide children with healthy food and drink options and we are working with Public Health England to update the School Food Standards, focusing on reducing sugar consumption.

As part of the second chapter of the Childhood Obesity Plan we are investing up to £26 million in breakfast clubs. Breakfast clubs can contribute to improved attainment, attendance and overall health and ensure that more children benefit from a healthy start to their school day.

We have also established a £100 million healthy pupils capital fund to facilitate an improvement in children’s physical and mental health by increasing and improving access to and use of relevant facilities, such as kitchens, dining facilities, changing rooms and sports facilities.

From September 2015, Ofsted inspectors look at how provision supports pupils’ knowledge on how to keep themselves healthy, including through exercising and healthy eating and we welcome the new inspection framework which Ofsted is currently developing for September 2019. This will consider how schools build knowledge across the whole curriculum and support pupils’ personal development more broadly, including in relation to healthy behaviours.

On 28 January 2019, the Department for Education published allocations from the additional £400 million announced at Budget 2018. Payments were made at the beginning of February through the same routes as devolved formula capital (DFC). As with DFC, individual allocations vary according to the number and phase of education of pupils in a school. An average primary and secondary school have been allocated at least £10,000 and £50,000 respectively. Individual allocations and an explanation of the methodology used to calculate them, are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations.

Schools can spend their allocations from the additional £400 million announced at Budget 2018 on capital projects to meet their own priorities. This may include improvements to buildings, equipment, and other facilities, such as ICT. The individual allocations for schools and other eligible institutions are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/capital-allocations. Payments were made at the beginning of February through the same routes as devolved formula capital.

In England local authorities are responsible for assessing oral health needs and improving the oral health of their local populations rather than the centralised approach in Scotland. Many local authorities have programmes in place that contain elements similar to those within the Childsmile programme, for example tooth brushing programmes and community fluoride varnish schemes.

Improving the oral health of young children in England is a Public Health England (PHE) priority. PHE’s Children’s Oral Health Improvement Programme Board brings together over 20 stakeholder organisations that all have key leadership roles for children and young people. Its work programme includes learning from other successful approaches including the Childsmile initiative in Scotland.

The Department for Education recognises the importance of healthy teeth - poor oral health can affect a child's ability to sleep, eat, speak, play and socialise with other children. Early Years Educator qualifications must cover the promotion of the health, safety and welfare of children. All early years’ providers have a responsibility to promote the health of children in their setting, set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage framework, good oral health can form a part of this and this may include supervised tooth brushing sessions. PHE has published a supervised tooth brushing toolkit to support the commissioning and delivery of these programmes. In addition early years providers have published a feasibility study of supervised tooth brushing in early years settings which concluded they were easily deliverable. The study is available at:

https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/2016/12/supervised-toothbrushing-in-early-years-settings/

Information on the cost of assessing oral health needs, and individual supervised brushing programmes is not collected centrally. Local authorities are responsible for improving oral health, assessing oral health needs and if appropriate commissioning supervised brushing programmes including nurseries and school breakfast clubs.

In England local authorities are responsible for assessing oral health needs and improving the oral health of their local populations rather than the centralised approach in Scotland. Many local authorities have programmes in place that contain elements similar to those within the Childsmile programme, for example tooth brushing programmes and community fluoride varnish schemes.

Improving the oral health of young children in England is a Public Health England (PHE) priority. PHE’s Children’s Oral Health Improvement Programme Board brings together over 20 stakeholder organisations that all have key leadership roles for children and young people. Its work programme includes learning from other successful approaches including the Childsmile initiative in Scotland.

The Department for Education recognises the importance of healthy teeth - poor oral health can affect a child's ability to sleep, eat, speak, play and socialise with other children. Early Years Educator qualifications must cover the promotion of the health, safety and welfare of children. All early years’ providers have a responsibility to promote the health of children in their setting, set out in the Early Years Foundation Stage framework, good oral health can form a part of this and this may include supervised tooth brushing sessions. PHE has published a supervised tooth brushing toolkit to support the commissioning and delivery of these programmes. In addition early years providers have published a feasibility study of supervised tooth brushing in early years settings which concluded they were easily deliverable. The study is available at:

https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/2016/12/supervised-toothbrushing-in-early-years-settings/

Information on the cost of assessing oral health needs, and individual supervised brushing programmes is not collected centrally. Local authorities are responsible for improving oral health, assessing oral health needs and if appropriate commissioning supervised brushing programmes including nurseries and school breakfast clubs.

School admission arrangements are set and applied locally.

The School Admissions Code already enables admission authorities to give priority to children who have a particular social or medical need to attend their school. This could include circumstances where the parent has a disability.

Where admission authorities wish to prioritise children on this basis, it must be clearly set out in their admission arrangements.