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Grand Committee
Children and Social Work Bill [HL] - Mon 04 Jul 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) clauses—this is one of them—where I was concerned that the work of independent fostering agencies, adoption - Speech Link
2: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) clarify why the Bill extends the role of the virtual school head to children who leave care through adoption - Speech Link
3: Lord Warner (CB - Life peer) A foster father sexually abused a teenage girl; a Catholic priest abused young people in an adoption - Speech Link
4: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) impact on outcomes and life chances, even once they have left care through a permanence order. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children and Social Work Bill [HL] - Tue 14 Jun 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) turn to adoption and long-term care. - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) , and to raise the profile and value of adoption in the nation’s eyes. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) I turn now to adoption. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Tue 24 May 2016
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) This Bill will also reflect the permanence of the Assembly and the Welsh Government in statute. - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The Bill will also reflect the permanence of the Assembly and the Welsh Government in statute.Your Lordships - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barker (LDEM - Life peer) in the gracious Speech, such as adoption and prison reform. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (LDEM - Life peer) and communities nationally and overseas. - Speech Link
5: Lord Bridges of Headley (CON - Life peer) The eloquence with which he and the noble Lords, Lord Kakkar and Lord Butler, and the noble and learned - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Cities and Local Government Devolution Bill [HL] - Tue 12 Jan 2016
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) councils that do agree to the adoption of mayor or the devolved powers proceeding with these. - Speech Link
2: Lord Shipley (LDEM - Life peer) They clarify and enable, and they promote localism. - Speech Link
3: None about these and other aspects, not least the Government’s adoption of what might be called the Henry - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (CON - Life peer) friend the Chancellor also announced extra funding for TfN in the summer but if we want to see long-term permanence - Speech Link
5: Lord Beecham (LAB - Life peer) invite the noble Baroness to repeat the assurance that nothing in this proposal would facilitate the adoption - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Education and Adoption Bill - Tue 01 Dec 2015
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) delay for children and involving voluntary adoption agencies in regional adoption agencies.Further, - Speech Link
2: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) Given the very sad episode that she related, I could not agree more that permanence has to be the aim - Speech Link
3: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) needed, this should be organised in time for the medical adviser to complete their part of the child’s permanence - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Forced Adoptions - Wed 25 Nov 2015
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Douglas Carswell (IND - Clacton) grandpa.It is reassuring to think that the adoption system and the family courts are presided over by - Speech Link
2: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) I know from my family’s experience about the huge difference that fostering and adoption can and does - Speech Link
3: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) the rapid change in their role in permanence decisions on children in care. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Education and Adoption Bill - Tue 17 Nov 2015
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) This may well include broadening the regional approach to include wider permanence services, where this - Speech Link
2: None and how they are doing in achieving permanence in all its forms. - Speech Link
3: None say on other forms of pathways to permanence, such as long-term fostering or kinship care, although - Speech Link
4: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) a “permanence hub” that goes wider than just adoption. - Speech Link
5: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (LAB - Life peer) I want to see the resources available to make sure that permanence is the watchword for those children.It - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Scotland Bill - Mon 09 Nov 2015
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: David Mundell (CON - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) on the permanence of the Scottish Parliament in Committee, I am bringing forward new clause 12 and amendment - Speech Link
2: Tommy Sheppard (SNP - Edinburgh East) The first improvement is on the question of permanence, although I wonder why it has taken until now - Speech Link
3: Wayne David (LAB - Caerphilly) Members of the SNP claim to be good Europeans, but I am afraid they show little practical support for the adoption - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Enterprise Bill [HL] - Mon 26 Oct 2015
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) the office permanence and authority. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (CON - Life peer) and who acts effectively and with credibility and impartiality. - Speech Link
3: Lord Mendelsohn (LAB - Life peer) and they do not, and in relation to complaints information, signposting and other things. - Speech Link
4: Lord Mendelsohn (LAB - Life peer) than relying on people’s good intentions, there is nothing like a duty to pay to increase people’s adoption - Speech Link
5: Lord O'Neill of Clackmannan (LAB - Life peer) He has powers and teeth and he has support. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Standing Orders (Public Business) - Thu 22 Oct 2015
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Chris Grayling (CON - Epsom and Ewell) , and(c) in the case of a motion certified both in relation to England and in relation to England and - Speech Link
2: Iain Stewart (CON - Milton Keynes South) That is not on the table; indeed, we are enshrining the permanence of the Scottish Parliament. - Speech Link
3: Thérèse Coffey (CON - Suffolk Coastal) Section 3 refers to an adoption agency. - Speech Link