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Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

I thank the Minister most sincerely for the good news that he has given on the progress of the reform and improvements of support for social workers. I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. It has been a helpful opportunity to look at the progress in developing support for newly qualified social workers and other social workers. The point was raised with me by a psychiatrist who has worked for many years with social workers. Part of her concern was that the job description provided to social workers did not include a description of how many hours of supervision they would receive and details of such support. I wonder whether that might be looked at as well. I am sure that in the Minister’s discussion with his officials it will come out how far that might be improved. As a clinician, the psychiatrist was obliged to have so much supervision on a regular basis, and she felt that the social workers who she worked with were not getting that quality of supervision. May I say how very welcome the Conservative document, No More Blame Game, referred to by the noble Baroness, Lady Morris, is. I found it very helpful, and I look forward to receiving a hardback copy rather than the print-out that I have had so far. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.