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Proceeding contribution from Ed Balls (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 3 February 2009. It occurred during Opposition day on Child Protection.


Child Protection

I hesitate to do this, but I will have to refer the hon. Gentleman back to the Hansard record of the last time that he made the very same point and the reply that I gave. As he knows, the Ofsted figures were different from the Government's because they used a wider base. They included, for example, children who had died as a result of suicide or anorexia nervosa—or other deaths that could relate to something that had happened in the home—as opposed to the direct death of a child due to injury from a parent or carer. The figures are not comparable. He knows that as I explained it last time.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
487 c784-5 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Children Databases Children in care Abuse Bureaucracy ICT Inspections Protection Offences against children Standards Social services Vacancies Social workers Victoria Climbié Death Inquiry Ofsted
Link
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