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HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s important question. I reassure him that both reviews will be thorough and will be shared with the House, but will also feed into Josh…06 Dec 2021HANSARDYoung People: High-quality JobsI am delighted that Loughborough College has benefited from our T-levels capital fund to create fantastic new facilities. I would be happy to visit its new T-levels building and…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI am grateful to my hon. Friend, who I know has deep experience in the area. He is right that we need to carefully consider all possible routes to help ensure that children’s…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesWith permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement following the sentencing of the stepmother and father of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes on Friday. The whole nation is distraught at…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s important question. She is absolutely right about how social workers identify support networks for children—I have seen them do that…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI am grateful for the hon. Member’s question. Funding is one important part of the equation—absolutely—but equally important is making sure that we look at what went wrong and…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI think it important to note the £4.8 billion that local government will receive over the spending review period, but I hope the MacAlister review will give us an opportunity to…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. I will always go where the evidence leads. The reason why we asked Josh MacAlister to conduct the review prior to the tragic murder of this…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI am grateful for the hon. Lady’s question. I will certainly make time for that, as will the Minister responsible for children and families, my hon. Friend the Member for…06 Dec 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Safely Opening Schools After Christmas HolidaysI thank my hon. Friend for raising this important issue. Reducing transmission in schools is of the utmost importance to me, and I will do everything in my power to keep schools…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI thank my hon. Friend for her excellent question; I touched on the answer a bit earlier. She is absolutely right—I have seen really good evidence of high-performing children’s…06 Dec 2021HANSARDCovid-19: Safely Opening Schools After Christmas HolidaysOver 99% of eligible settings have now received a CO 2 monitor, with more than 320,000 now delivered. Final deliveries will be made before the end of term. Feedback from schools…06 Dec 2021HANSARDYoung People: High-quality JobsI am grateful to the Chairman of the Education Committee, who has been a champion for skills for most of his career. Computer science is very much part of the EBacc. Our overhaul…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI would respectfully say that I do not think anybody in this House would ever disrespect the social work workforce or any social worker. I also think that evidence-based strategy…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI would be delighted to meet the hon. Lady. I think her characterisation is slightly unfair in the sense that we work towards improving the system, and the teams both in the…06 Dec 2021HANSARDYoung People: High-quality JobsI am grateful to the shadow Minister. Obviously, he was not listening to the Budget, because apprenticeship investment is going up to £2.7 billion a year by 2024. I remind him…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI will certainly take a good look at that pilot. In my time as the Minister for Children and Families, I saw similar projects that did tremendous work in schools with the most…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI thank the hon. Lady for her 15 years of service as a social worker. She is absolutely right. In the first quarter of next year, there will be a reduction in that bureaucracy;…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesMy hon. Friend raises a fundamental issue, which is that the system needs to have the confidence and ability to safeguard, protect and build on relationships that a child may have…06 Dec 2021HANSARD Arthur Labinjo-HughesI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s words. The words of Arthur have, I know, torn the heart of the nation. I assure him that both reviews will be able to go wherever they need to.…06 Dec 2021