Independent Review of Children’s Social Care Debate
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Lord Sandhurst
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Independent Review of Children’s Social Care
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Baroness Barran (Con)
The noble Lord is absolutely right and, yes, that is absolutely an area of focus.
Lord Sandhurst (Con)
My Lords, I want to ask a practical but important nuts-and-bolts question. Can my noble friend the Minister assure the House that it will be a cross-government and multiagency effort and not just for the Department for Education to put the review’s findings into effect?
Baroness Barran (Con)
My noble friend is right to press on this point. This needs to be multiagency at both the local level—it must include the voluntary sector, as the noble Baroness, Lady Armstrong, highlighted, and statutory partners; we were clear in our guidance on the importance of this—and the central government level. We need to do that across the Department for Education, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office.