Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will disclose names of individuals and organisations who attended meetings with the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families on the power to test different ways of working provisions of the Children and Social Work Bill; and on what dates such meetings took place.
The Chief Social Worker has met social workers and other individuals and organisations at many meetings, events and conferences to discuss policy and the Children and Social Work Bill more broadly, where the power may have been only one possible area of discussion. Below is a list of the key meetings attended by the CSW, which focussed more specifically on the power to test different ways of working.
Date of meeting | Organisation/Individual |
25/07/2016 | Family Rights Group |
01/08/2016 | Family Rights Group |
03/08/2016 | Cafcass |
04/08/2016 | Who Cares? Trust |
08/09/2016 | Barnardo’s |
08/09/2016 | NSPCC |
13/09/2016 | Partners in Practice Local Authorities (Hampshire County Council, Leeds City Council, Lincolnshire County Council); Baroness Pinnock; Earl of Listowel |
15/09/2016 | Article 39 |
27/09/2016 | Lord Laming |
12/10/2016 | The Children’s Society |
16/01/2017 | NAIRO; Hampshire County Council; Tri-borough Children’s Services; Leeds City Council; North Yorkshire County Council |
21/02/2017 | Tim Loughton MP; Kelly Tollhurst MP; Lord Mackay; Lord Laming |