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HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for those comments. We will certainly take that away and get him a response. Question put and agreed to. Clause 11 accordingly ordered to stand part of…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)We are aware that a provider of children’s social care places suddenly closing their provision as a result of financial failure could have a significant detrimental impact on the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)Amendment 42, in the name of the hon. Member for Twickenham, seeks to extend the powers to cap profits of Ofsted-registered non-local authority providers of children’s homes and…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)My Department will introduce civil monetary penalties to compel children’s care providers to comply with the financial oversight scheme and—if implemented in the future—the profit…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 17 enables information sharing between Ofsted and my Department to ensure the effective functioning of the financial oversight scheme and profit cap regime. Sharing…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for that. Data will be shared to other parties as part of the financial oversight scheme. It is worth saying that the Department will share with local…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I look forward to working through the measures in this landmark Bill with all Members, as has been the spirit so…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank hon. Members for their thoughtful comments, suggestions and questions. On the point that the hon. Member for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston made about learning from the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)My apologies. I did know that, but I was trying to be impressive by remembering the hon. Lady’s constituency and I got it badly wrong. On the hon. Lady’s point about where…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)The shadow Minister is absolutely correct. We want to work collaboratively with local authorities in rolling this out. We will not force local authorities to do so. I thank him…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)There is no legal obligation for England to publish that assessment, but we are certainly using it to inform our work on the Bill.28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)Amendment 24 seeks to place a legal duty on local authorities to provide therapeutic treatment for children placed in secure accommodation—that is, a secure children’s home. The…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I am coming to the end of my speech and hope to answer the points that the Opposition spokesperson made. I will certainly take away the issues that he raised. I thank all Members…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I am referring to the conducted children’s rights impact assessment, where children are directly impacted by the policies and/or particular groups of children and young people are…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)To state this clearly, the impact assessment has not yet been published but is obviously informing our work. Obviously, various different assessments are undertaken and I will…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)To be clear, we will be publishing the regulatory impact assessments. We will certainly be using the evidence from the children’s rights impact assessments to inform our work. I…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)Clauses 11 and 12 will strengthen Ofsted’s regulatory powers to allow it to act at pace and scale when that is in the best interests of children. Specifically, clause 11…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for his contributions and questions. He made a number of practical points and asked a number of specific questions.28 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank the hon. Member for raising those matters. I would be happy to meet her to understand the issues in more detail.27 Jan 2025HANSARDFree School MealsAs I mentioned, we will keep our approach in all Government programmes, including eligibility for free school meals, under continued review. We are aware of local measures on…27 Jan 2025