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HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that temporary accommodation is linked to worse outcomes for children and that there are deep consequences for those who are forced to endure…08 Dec 2025HANSARDChild Poverty StrategyThis is an ambitious strategy, which will see the largest ever reduction in the number of children growing up in poverty in a single Parliament since records began. No one can…08 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseI join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to the families for their bravery and courage. I cannot begin to imagine the trauma and pain that they are experiencing as a result of…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseThe Chair of the Select Committee raises questions relating to Ofsted, as the shadow Secretary of State did, and I will respond in some detail to those. It is important that we…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseI am grateful to the hon. Lady for her engagement with officials on these matters. We will be most effective if we work across the House to address the serious concerns that have…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseThe local review will get under way immediately. It will be led by an independent reviewer, who is independent of the local safeguarding partnership. From the point at which they…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseI understand the concerns that my hon. Friend raises and the importance of ensuring that we have the strongest possible protections for all children to keep them safe from harm.…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseAs a Department, we are working with Ofsted to review the regulation of nursery chains to ensure that parents can see strengths and areas of concern across the chain and that,…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseMy hon. Friend raises a number of important concerns about how groups operate in early years settings and schools, and the importance of ensuring that we have the right framework…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseThe right hon. Gentleman raises a number of important points, and he is right to thank the police for their thorough work in what has been an extremely complex and harrowing…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseI agree very strongly with my hon. Friend. Alongside bringing forward the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, we are taking a number of important steps to improve safeguarding.…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. The local review, which will come forward shortly, will put us in a position to consider what lessons there are from this case, but the wider…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her response. I know she shares my commitment and determination to make sure that our early years settings are safe for our children, as…04 Dec 2025HANSARDCamden Nursery Sexual Abuse CaseWith permission, Madam Deputy Speaker, I will now make a statement regarding the sickening case of child sexual abuse at a nursery in Camden. Before I go further, I want to remind…04 Dec 2025HANSARDEngagementsindicated dissent.03 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsLet me be absolutely clear: these are council deficits. They will not be coming from school budgets. Over the course of this Parliament, we are investing more in SEND. We are…01 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI recognise the very real worry that parents across the country have about the system of support for children with SEND, which the hon. Gentleman and the Conservative party left…01 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI absolutely join the right hon. Lady in wishing those pupils the very best. It is a wonderful opportunity for all the young people taking part.01 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThat is why we have put an extra £1 billion into high needs budgets this year. The capital the right hon. Gentleman so casually dismisses is in order to deliver more specialist…01 Dec 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI would love to do that, but sadly what we have heard from the Conservatives this afternoon demonstrates the challenge we face as a Government in engaging seriously on these big…01 Dec 2025