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Proceeding contribution from Baroness Meacher (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 8 January 2008. It occurred during Debate on bill and Committee proceeding on Children and Young Persons Bill [HL].


Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

There is just the small matter of money. Although the Minister said that local authorities have huge budgets, my understanding is that local authorities are unbelievably pressed and have huge demands on them and never enough money to meet them. If the Government want to have proper controlled studies, proper pilots where we are comparing like with like, I have a feeling that the only way to achieve that is if the Government generate what the Minister rightly said is an extremely small amount of money—£6 million in government terms is absolutely nothing—to ensure that there is proper evaluation of a control study.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
697 c325GC 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
Subjects
Children Conditions of employment Contracts Children in care Career development Finance Pilot schemes Mental health services Universities Training Young people Social services Social work Social workers Care leavers
Legislation
Children and Young Persons Bill (HL) 2007-08
Link
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