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HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I thank noble Lords for highlighting in this debate very important issues aimed at ensuring that children and families can get the support that they need at the right…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI hope I did make that clear earlier, but I am very happy to reiterate. It would be wholly wrong. It would not be in line with the law for the types of cases that we have heard…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, the Government are putting children at the heart of everything we do. This is evident in the far-reaching child protection and safeguarding measures in the Bill. The…09 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillIn relation to recommendation 6, in very big consultation with the sector, the objective of the Government is to deliver on the intention of the recommendation while…09 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillWhat can I say? It is an utter pleasure to be here to respond to this debate. I was not aware that I had a choice; nevertheless, I am very pleased to make my first appearance in…05 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillI am desperately searching for the note in my folder on yachts. I may have to write to the noble Baroness on that issue later. I thank my noble friend Lord Hendy for his…05 Jun 2025HANSARDSchool Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThis pay award means that all teachers will now be receiving about a 10% increase, which this Government have been able to deliver. When we are then thinking about specific…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSchool Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThe noble Lord raises an interesting point. There are of course people who enter the teaching profession, teach for 10 years, and then leave to become Members of Parliament and…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSchool Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsMy Lords, on 22 May we were able to announce that this Government will fulfil the recommendations of the School Teachers’ Review Body and award a 4% pay increase to our teachers.…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSchool Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsYes, they might be found by, for example, schools being able to take the opportunity of the national energy contract that the DfE has entered into. We have already seen that…04 Jun 2025HANSARDSchool Teachers’ Review Body: RecommendationsThe noble Lord is right that we have inherited a situation where school budgets are stretched. That is why we have already made available an additional £2.3 billion for the core…04 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, as we start on these amendments relating to the operational delivery of multi-agency child protection teams, I will just respond to a few general points before I go into…22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillIn previous groups, I have spoken at some length about the purpose and functions of these new multi-agency child protection teams and how they will be delivered as part of the…22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillThat last intervention from the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, was very interesting and useful in helping us through this amendment. There is absolute agreement about the need for…22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI hope I can provide some reassurance to noble Lords about this. Amendment 61 seeks to ensure that the consistent identifier could be used for research purposes. I understand the…22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillSpeaking as a Smith, I can say that those of us with very popular names recognise the point made by both the noble Baroness, Lady Finlay, and the noble Lord, Lord Meston —although…22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI thought I was doing quite well, but I am afraid that I do not have the answer to that. If it is possible to find it out, I will let the noble Baroness know.22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am pretty certain that officials will have already consulted with the royal college, but, if they have not, I give the noble Baroness an undertaking that they will.22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I will speak to the amendments in group 7, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Farmer and Lord Lucas, and ably introduced by the noble Baroness, Lady Cash. There has been…22 May 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI did read an extract from the non-statutory guidance that already exists, Information Sharing : Advice for P ractitioners Providing Safeguarding Services for Children , Young P…22 May 2025