Children and Social Work Bill [HL]

My Lords, first, I want to put Amendment 29 in context. I see it as part of a package relating to...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support this amendment. I do so because it reminds me of my experienc...

My Lords, I, too, rise to support the noble Lord, Lord Warner, in his amendment and particularly ...

My Lords, I also support the noble Lord’s amendment. He said that other bodies might be involved ...

I support what the noble Lord, Lord Warner, proposes in this amendment. Before I make the next re...

My Lords, I have great sympathy with what the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, said. We all work wit...

My Lords, I also support this amendment. I apologise for not being here for day one but at Second...

Very briefly, I recognise the concerns expressed by the noble Baroness. So much money might be sa...

My Lords, I can see that the Minister is straining at the leash to answer this amendment. I make ...

I thank noble Lords who have contributed to this short debate. I am happy to signify my support f...

My Lords, before I respond, I am sure noble Lords will be interested in the documents that my dep...

My Lords, I listened very carefully to the Minister. Before responding, perhaps I may say that he...

Before the noble Lord withdraws his amendment, casting back to the Children Act 2004, one agency ...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

30: Clause 1, page 2, line 11, at end insert—

“( ) A l...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 30 I shall also speak to Amendments 32, 44, 57, 63, 65, 67 and 69, ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 30, 32, 40, 44, 46, 57 and 63, to which I have added my nam...

My Lords, I have Amendment 35 in this group but I also support the amendments in the names of the...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 39 in this group, tabled in my name and those of my noble an...

My Lords, I add my support to Amendment 39, to which my name has been added. It says it all that ...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Farmer, spoke effectively about the fundamental importance of rela...

My Lords, in speaking to their amendments the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, and other noble Lords ...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly to Amendments 30, 32, 38 and 57. I wonder why the issue of person...

My Lords, before I say a word on Amendment 32, it is extremely interesting how, as on the first d...

I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate and start by addressing Amendments 30...

My Lords, perhaps I may ask a quick question about SEN thresholds. I understand that recent legis...

I will do that.

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for that reply, as I am to all those who have taken part ...

Moved by

Baroness Wheeler

41: Clause 2, page 2, line 41, at end insert—

“(2A) A...

My Lords, our Amendments 41, 42 and 45 to Clause 2 and Amendment 54 to Clause 3 aim to make the l...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 98A in this group in my name. This is about the universal cre...

I will speak to Amendment 47 in this group. Many noble Lords will recognise that adolescence is a...

My Lords, briefly, I support Amendment 74A, to which I have added my name. I draw your Lordships’...

My Lords, I have listened carefully to the strong case made by the noble Baroness, Lady Wheeler, ...

The noble Baroness will understand how sympathetic I am, sitting on this side of the Committee. W...

When I spoke at Second Reading, I made a plea for the Government to consider shifting money to ea...

My Lords, I urge the Minister not to make this provision too prescriptive. Good local authorities...

My Lords, I shall speak to the group that includes Amendments 41, 43, 45, 47, 51, retabled as Ame...

I understand the force of what the Minister is saying and the Committee will be grateful for his ...

I was about to say something about data which I hope will satisfy the noble Lord. If it does not,...

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s response and particularly for what he said about keepi...

I noticed that the Minister has kindly arranged a meeting with Mr Brokenshire, the Minister in th...

The answer to that is yes.

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response and for undertaking to look at the New Belongings...

Moved by

Lord Wills

52: Clause 3, page 3, line 42, leave out “on request”

My Lords, all the amendments in my name in this group aimed to fulfil the ambitions of the Bill b...

My Lords, the Bill as drafted places responsibility on the young person to request advice and sup...

My Lords, I briefly support Amendments 52, 53 and 54. These have echoes of the debate we had on m...

My Lords, I add one sentence because I clearly heard the Minister say that there would be young p...

My Lords, I came to this Committee looking at the amendment thinking “No”. Young people themselve...

I support Amendments 52, 53 and 74A. I was most grateful for the Minister’s encouraging reply on ...

My Lords, I want to say a word about personal advisers. The first thing we have to look at is who...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Wills, Lord Watson and Lord Hunt, for tabling this group ...

The Minister rather peremptorily dismissed the arguments advanced by other noble Lords and me on ...

I do not think that we are arguing about anything here. It seems to me obvious that, to take the ...

The Minister seems to be praying me in aid as somehow opposed to the amendment advocated by the n...

I fully understand that; I am sorry if I created some confusion.

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to everyone who has taken part in what I thought was a useful s...

Moved by

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top

61A: Clause 3, page 4, line 18, after “needs,...

My Lords, those of you who have heard me speak on previous Bills will know that this is something...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Armstrong, particularly on Amendment 61A, but also in wh...

My Lords, I am sure the Grand Committee is very grateful to the noble Baroness for tabling these ...

My Lords, I feel that I could already write the Minister’s response by saying that of course thes...

My Lords, I, too, support Amendments 61A and 71A in particular and draw the Minister’s attention ...

My Lords, I apologise for being unavoidably unable to come to the first day of Committee. I shoul...

My Lords, we have had a very interesting and informative debate on this subject. I do not wish to...

My Lords, this has been a persuasive debate. We have already had the evidence that my noble frien...

I am grateful to all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. Although I see the inten...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her careful and thoughtful response, but I have a couple...

I am happy to write to the noble Earl with more detail and will circulate the letter to other Pee...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply. She talked about the intent of the amendments being...

Moved by

Lord Warner

73: Clause 3, page 5, line 16, at end insert—

“( ) In maki...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment on an issue of great concern to me: safeguarding young peop...

My Lords, I obviously support what the noble Lord, Lord Warner, has said, although I am not going...

My Lords, this is an important probing amendment. I now understand why it is in this grouping and...

My Lords, I rise to express not dissimilar concerns to the noble Baroness, Lady Howarth. I firmly...

My Lords, I very much appreciated the 1992 report of the noble Lord, Lord Warner, Choosing with C...

My Lords, as we have heard, this is a complex and difficult issue. I have huge sympathy with what...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Warner, for his amendment and the points that he, the ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister and everyone else who has spoken in this debate. I could ...

Moved by

Baroness Walmsley

75: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause—