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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) in care aged 16 and 17 who are living in supported accommodation. - Speech Link
2: None With 8,640 children in care, including those in secure accommodation, and 85% in private equity-owned - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) They are the sign of a market that is distorted, dysfunctional and failing to serve children and young - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 17 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: None We are therefore confident that the views of children in care and previously looked-after children are - Speech Link
2: None and commissioning care places for looked-after children. - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) in care and care leavers. - Speech Link
4: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) , and where the local authority buys in places for looked-after children. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) brokerage services to children in need and looked-after children in state boarding and independent schools - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) These help looked-after children and care leavers to identify and connect with important people in their - Speech Link
2: None I believe the single unique identifier proposal will improve looked-after children and care leavers’ - Speech Link
3: None common barriers of looked-after children and care leavers when they provide their services. - Speech Link
4: None the well-being of looked-after children and care leavers needs to be at the centre of the work that - Speech Link
5: Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) We know that looked-after children and care leavers face stigma and discrimination and we are determined - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: None On top of this, all looked-after children must have an up-to-date and detailed care plan setting out - Speech Link
2: None children and care leavers. - Speech Link
3: None children and care leavers. - Speech Link
4: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) children and care leavers. - Speech Link
5: None and previously looked-after children. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (Con - Life peer) those in non-kin foster care, and significantly higher than all looked-after children or children in - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Special Educational Needs: Dyscalculia - Wed 04 Jun 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) cohort of children, young people and adults. - Speech Link
2: Lord Mott (Con - Life peer) to focus on children and families. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green (XB - Life peer) The Government are rightly taking care to think about what data about children should be saved and shared - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) of the Children and Families Act 2014. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Employment Rights Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Deben (Con - Life peer) We are an organic farm, and therefore we have looked after the soil very carefully and suffered less - Speech Link
2: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) I do not see why the cleaners who come after me and other people should have to scrub out the toilet - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) In many sectors—in particular hospitality, retail and care—trial shifts are often the only realistic - Speech Link
4: Lord Ashcombe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) the phone in his pocket—and the call came through at some time after 9 pm. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) This Government are making choices to keep this country safer, and are cleaning up the mess left after - Speech Link
2: Saqib Bhatti (Con - Meriden and Solihull East) sexual predators will have the book thrown at them and that protecting our children is the only thing - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Its work is critical in giving prison leavers a central point of support to prevent reoffending and help - Speech Link
4: Nicholas Dakin (Lab - Scunthorpe) There are no girls in a YOI, and there have not been since the girl who was in a YOI moved out soon after - Speech Link
5: Nicholas Dakin (Lab - Scunthorpe) Occasionally, prison officers let themselves down, and those cases are properly looked at. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Bus Services (No. 2) Bill [Lords]
2nd reading - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) After all, we have all heard from constituents about jobs not taken and opportunities missed because - Speech Link
2: Heidi Alexander (Lab - Swindon South) Funding, even record funding, without reform means throwing good money after bad, and that brings me - Speech Link
3: Sarah Hall (LAB - Warrington South) It provides free travel for care leavers and maintains essential services that the private sector would - Speech Link
4: Mike Martin (LD - Tunbridge Wells) With the right investment and priorities, focused on children, the elderly and healthcare, we can bring - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland and Fakenham) It needs to consider vulnerable SEND children and their educational needs. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 22 May 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) Although the honourable Member, Josh MacAlister, whom I have met, is passionate about looked-after children - Speech Link
2: None the safety and well-being of children at its heart”. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Longfield (Lab - Life peer) in care, and I looked in detail at the experience of children in care throughout that time. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) effective action to protect and help children. - Speech Link
5: None continuity and care for my well-being. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Adoption and Kinship Placements - Tue 20 May 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) for children and young people in their care—those who are unable to live with their birth parents—and - Speech Link
2: Alistair Strathern (Lab - Hitchin) We have a number of champions of care and care leavers here. - Speech Link
3: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) faced by many children who are looked after and care experienced.When we talk about Government support - Speech Link
4: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) In 2024, there were nearly 3,000 looked-after children who were adopted. - Speech Link
5: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) Both adopted children and children in kinship care can receive advice and support from local authority - Speech Link