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Lords Chamber
Children and Young People: Local Authority Care - Thu 18 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) Part 1 of the Children and Families Act was meant to“speed up the adoption process and enable more children - Speech Link


Grand Committee
A Failure of Implementation (Children and Families Act 2014 Committee Report) - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Wyld (CON - Life peer) However, the effects of children’s pre-adoption adversities and maltreatment can be long lasting, and - Speech Link
2: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) , employment rights and race and ethnicity in adoption, I hope that the Government will give serious - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wilcox of Newport (LAB - Life peer) For example, on adoption, there was a lack of support and inconsistent approaches for the early permanence - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Cost of Living: Parental Leave and Pay - Mon 19 Jun 2023
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Catherine McKinnell (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne North) Alison Woodhead and Katharine Slocombe from Adoption UK shared the distinct pressures that adoptive parents - Speech Link
2: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) weeks of paid leave within the first eight weeks following the birth of their child or placement for adoption - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) employee told their employer that they were pregnant, until six months after returning from maternity, adoption - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Independent Review of Children’s Social Care - Thu 24 Nov 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) I chair the all-party parliamentary group for adoption and permanence. - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) Alas, the adoption numbers have halved since the peak, some seven or eight years ago, and adoption seems - Speech Link
3: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) Friend again, and also for the work he did on adoption as Children’s Minister. - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) The adoption support fund was such an important part of the complex programme of getting adoption back - Speech Link
5: Claire Coutinho (CON - East Surrey) Many Members also mentioned adoption. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adoption: Support for Birth Families - Thu 17 Nov 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Chi Onwurah (LAB - Newcastle upon Tyne Central) Christmas advert gives a moving and positive representation of the adoption and care sector, and has - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) That is why the all-party parliamentary group for adoption and permanence published a report looking - Speech Link
3: Claire Coutinho (CON - East Surrey) Adoption agencies must explain the process of adoption and the legal implications, and birth parents - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Support for New Adoptive Parents - Mon 21 Mar 2022
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on adoption and permanence, it is a privilege to engage - Speech Link
2: Holly Mumby-Croft (CON - Scunthorpe) This is a fantastic system that provides the same access and rights as maternity leave and puts adoption - Speech Link
3: Bill Esterson (LAB - Sefton Central) Anything that we can do to get permanence for those children must be to their benefit and to the benefit - Speech Link
4: Lee Rowley (CON - North East Derbyshire) create a more level playing field for adoption and on making the processes easier and simpler, although - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kinship Care for Babies - Tue 22 Feb 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Ben Bradley (CON - Mansfield) that fostering and adoption are so difficult. - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) Alongside adoption, fostering and special guardianship orders, the kinship care model is an excellent - Speech Link
3: Will Quince (CON - Colchester) It is about permanence and the potential for future reunification. As the hon. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Elections Bill (Ninth sitting)
Committee stage:s: 9th sitting - Thu 21 Oct 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None Please give each other and members of staff space when seated and when entering and leaving the room. - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) Gentleman and the hon. Member for Lancaster and Fleetwood made a point about political donations. - Speech Link
3: Cat Smith (LAB - Lancaster and Fleetwood) definition of electoral residence.Currently, residence is understood to mean a considerable degree of permanence - Speech Link
4: Kemi Badenoch (CON - Saffron Walden) fraud and for using loopholes. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Timpson Review of School Exclusion - Thu 16 Sep 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Graham Stringer (LAB - Blackley and Broughton) Please also give each other and members of staff space when seated and when entering and leaving the - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) I am the chair of the all-party parliamentary group for adoption and permanence, which this week published - Speech Link
3: Peter Kyle (LAB - Hove) and to keep them healthy and safe. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Adoption Provision - Tue 07 Sep 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Gavin Williamson (CON - South Staffordshire) Adoption Support Fund to help children who have experienced abuse and neglect to get the therapeutic - Speech Link