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HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI thank the Minister for her very detailed reply and for her commitment to write; that is much appreciated. To respond to the Minister’s remarks, the reason for tabling Amendments…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, this has been an excellent debate on a range of specific amendments, all of which either seek to improve the residential care provision for children and young people or,…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, Clause 13, as we have heard, introduces monetary penalties for non-compliance with an improvement plan or for running an unregistered children’s home or fostering…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, Clause 11 epitomises both the responsibility and the privilege that we all share as lawmakers in ensuring that the law works as well as possible for children who are…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI was aware that my remarks may not have been clear that, in the department’s own memorandum, it describes this power as being akin to a Henry VIII power.17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 135 to 138C in my name. Clause 12 introduces the provider oversight scheme, which, according to the department’s policy summary, creates the…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillBefore the noble Baroness moves on, I am not clear about something. The specific recommendation from the National Network of Designated Healthcare Professionals is to have this…12 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillThe Minister mentioned that the Government are putting funding into extensions and so forth. Will she write with details of how many additional places that funding is expected to…12 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, the context for my Amendments 134 and 178 is, as we have heard in this short debate, that we face a very severe shortage of foster carers. As other noble Lords have…12 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to Amendments 85, 89, 92 and 93 in my name. Clause 7 introduces new requirements for local authorities in England to assess whether certain care leavers…12 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I am delighted to add my name to Amendment 107 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Storey. I commend him and his colleagues in the other place, particularly the…12 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Russell, said that this was a wide-ranging group. As I was thinking about it, I thought that what pulls it together is that it is a kind of Maslow’s…12 Jun 2025HANSARDFree School MealsMy Lords, I am grateful to the Government for this opportunity to understand the Statement on free school meal expansion rather better. I acknowledge that parents and children in…10 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI would be grateful if the Minister would agree to go back and talk to her ministerial colleagues about this again. She is absolutely right that some of the effective targeted…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly to this group of amendments. The noble Lord, Lord Watson, again reminded the Committee that vulnerable children in the care of a local…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 73, 74, 75, 76 and 76A in my name, and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hampton, for adding his name to these amendments. I apologise to those…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, the noble Baronesses, Lady Grey-Thompson and Lady Walmsley, made a predictably powerful case for the mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse and highlighted its…09 Jun 2025