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Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

I support the amendment. I passionately believe that stability of care and social workers is important, not only for a child social worker in the field but for residential care in particular. One of the principal lacks of the sort of distressed and damaged children who tend to be in care is an experience of secure attachment to a responsible adult who they believe cares about them. The problem is that, unless we put into legislation something of this sort, local authorities will cut corners, because they are always short of money. So it is essential that such a provision should be somewhere in the legislation.