Children and Social Work Bill [HL]

My Lords, Amendment 135B seeks to replace the existing Clause 20 and much of Part 2 of the Bill w...

My Lords, I have to inform the Committee that if Amendment 135B is agreed to, I cannot put the qu...

My Lords, I added my name to this amendment because I was moved to do so, particularly by the Bri...

My Lords, I have also added my name to this amendment, and to Amendment 135C in the next group, w...

My Lords, I remind the Committee that I have form in this area as the person who chaired the comm...

My Lords, we are fiddling while Rome burns. I have spoken this week to a social worker, a directo...

My Lords, I add my support to the amendments in this group, and I wish to make two points.

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My Lords, many noble Lords have already spoken about many of the issues surrounding these proposa...

My Lords, I very much welcome the briefing that we received from Ministers last week on the quest...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate: the noble Lords, Lord ...

Then why on earth did the Government abolish the GSCC and transfer it to the HCPC when we said at...

I will come to that. In its totality of standards, there is very little which is focused on or pa...

Everything that the Minister said seemed to relate to social workers in the services for which hi...

In relation to education and training, we are saying that.

What expertise does the DfE have in relation to the work and performance of social workers workin...

My Lords, I did not get an answer to my question about which Secretary of State it would be. Stra...

Today’s edition of Written Statements and Answers contains an Answer to a Question that I put dow...

It is clear that the agency will be supported by the DfE and the DH. Both Secretaries of State wi...

My Lords, very briefly, what evidence does the Minister have, first, that moving the regulation c...

As we have not done it, I cannot produce any evidence. However, given that the profession very re...

I am sorry; I do not understand. Perhaps the Minister can help me. What does that mean? Who will ...

We will obviously bring in people from the sector, work with them in the establishment, consult t...

I just point out to the noble Lord that the Government have essentially rejected the Law Commissi...

As I said earlier, the recent report by the DPRRC agreed that it was not inappropriate for the Go...

My Lords, I listened to the Minister with increasing disbelief and I think that many Members sitt...

Moved by

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

135C: After Clause 20, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I do not intend to repeat the arguments of the previous debate, but I will pick up two ...

My Lords, my name is on this amendment, which is probably bad news for the Minister, and I suppor...

My Lords, I was attracted to putting my name to Amendments 135B and 135C because of their cleanli...

My Lords, I hope that the Minister sees Amendments 135B and 135C as a helpful attempt to get over...

My Lords, one could scarcely fail to notice that when the Minister talked about the very welcome ...

My Lords, the Minister referred earlier to the regulator having a role in fitness to practise. He...

My Lords, in view of what the noble Lord, Lord Warner, said about how we are apparently wasting e...

Perhaps I may take the Minister back to his opening remarks, which were meant to reassure me beca...

That was a very interesting comment. I just do not get it. The noble Lord, Lord Nash, says that t...

My Lords, noble Lords will be reassured to hear that I do not intend to speak to every clause; I ...

I share the concerns of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, particularly his first point about the fees fr...

My Lords, perhaps I can respond first to the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, and the nob...

Is it the Minister’s intention to write about fees?

I will respond, yes.

We are having only one debate. Is the noble Lord going to write?

Yes.

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for reminding me of CQC. I am afraid my memory is going. We d...