Family: Protective Effect Debate

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Department: Department for Education
Monday 7th November 2022

(2 years, 1 month ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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Government departments already work very collaboratively in this area—my own department works closely with both the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department of Health and Social Care. The real way that we want to deliver for families is by listening to the recommendations from the Children’s Commissioner and making sure that our policy is led by that vision of a family test and its protective effect.

Lord Kamall Portrait Lord Kamall (Con)
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My Lords, does my noble friend the Minister acknowledge that the state cannot do all of this itself? It needs to work not only across government departments but with civil society organisations, particularly neighbourhood civil society. Can she enlighten us on some of the work that her department is doing with local civil society?