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HANSARDChildren and Young People in Care: AccommodationTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure that children and young people in care are placed in safe and appropriate accommodation.16 Dec 2021HANSARDChildren and Young People in Care: AccommodationMy Lords, I am very grateful indeed to the Minister for that helpful Answer. As the House knows, no child is taken into care without there being clear evidence of the child’s…16 Dec 2021HANSARDFootball: Casey ReviewMy Lords, the noble Baroness produced her remarkably good report very speedily. We should acknowledge that; she did a splendid job. The Football Association has aspirations to…06 Dec 2021HANSARDChild SafeguardingMy Lords, I, too, am grateful for the repeat of the Statement and I shall be very brief, but it is necessary to emphasise, yet again, that the awful suffering and death of this…06 Dec 2021HANSARDHIV and AIDSWhen coronavirus struck us, within a year, remarkably, a number of vaccines had been produced, to huge effect. Does that not stand in marked contrast to what has happened with…01 Dec 2021HANSARDPublic Health Grant to Local AuthoritiesMy Lords, the good news is that in the Budget last week, it was announced that local councils are to receive £1.6 billion in grants for each of the next three years. The bad news…02 Nov 2021HANSARDNHS England Funding: Announcement to MediaI wonder whether the Minister would agree that the NHS cannot succeed without adequate social care. In the last seven days we have had two reports that show just how vulnerable…26 Oct 2021HANSARDSocial Care: Family CarersMy Lords, the Minister has already indicated an understanding that many carers sacrifice a huge part of their lives in trying to care for a loved one. Many of the community…13 Sept 2021HANSARDResidential Social Care: StaffTo ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to improve the (1) training, and (2) remuneration, of staff in social care residential services.06 Sept 2021HANSARDResidential Social Care: StaffMy Lords, I am grateful, but the Minister will understand that, very often, the impression is given that the only qualification needed by these splendid staff is that of a kind…06 Sept 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Education AttendanceMy Lords, may I ask about the children not attending school and not in contact with any other services? What are the Government doing to ensure that these missing children and…01 Jul 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Hospital Patient ReferralsMy Lords, given the awful experiences that residents of care homes had when they were deprived of all contact with their loved ones while patients were being discharged from…28 Jun 2021HANSARDChildren: Care HomesMy Lords, do the Government now regret the pressure that they placed on local authorities to outsource their services, as they call it, thereby placing into the hands of…21 Jun 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Care HomesMy Lords, I feel sure that the Minister will agree that it was extraordinary that, when relatives were prevented from visiting their loved ones in residential care, and many of…17 Jun 2021HANSARDCare Homes: Insurance IndemnityThe Minister has a very good understanding that many of the residents in residential care homes are unable, because of their condition, to comprehend the significance of the…19 May 2021HANSARDSocial Care: Person-centred Dementia CareMy Lords, as we have heard, dementia is a cruel illness because it strips away both individual personality and memory. Does the Minister agree that, learning the lessons of this…17 May 2021HANSARDFootball: European Super LeagueMy Lords, the clubs supporting this proposal often claim that their fans are the beating heart of all that they do, yet sometimes it seems as if the loyalty of these very fans…20 Apr 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Impact on the Prison SystemMy Lords, following on from the noble Lord, Lord German, is the Minister aware that there is an increasing number of offenders being discharged from prison on a Friday afternoon…22 Mar 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Over-75sMy Lords, the Minister will know that six out of 10 people with dementia live in their own home, so they depend on a range of care workers coming into their home—sad to say, often…09 Feb 2021HANSARDYouth UnemploymentMy Lords, does the Minister recall a saying that I often heard in my youth: “Idle hands make light work for the devil”? We all know that the years between the ages of 16 and 24…15 Oct 2020