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Safeguarding Children

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

483 c372-91 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Children, Schools and Families

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Offences Against Children
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Written questions
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Pickles | 483 c383 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is asking Lord Laming to consider three questions. I suggest that the most di...

Ed Balls | 483 c383 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. A balance must be struck with care to meet a clear legal test about the...

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Ian Cawsey | 483 c383-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has already referred to the growth in resources for this work, but will he look...

Ed Balls | 483 c384 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. We must do more to support the training and recruitment of social workers—p...

Robert Neill | 483 c385 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is right to stress the importance of political and managerial accountability....

Ed Balls | 483 c385 (Link to this contribution) It is statutory under the Children Act 2004 that that responsibility is with the director of childre...

Angela Watkinson | 483 c384 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that people who commit serious acts of abuse against children do so...

Ed Balls | 483 c384 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady's wider point is absolutely right, but in this particular case the deception was based...

Helen Southworth | 483 c384 (Link to this contribution) As part of the extensive range of actions that my right hon. Friend is rightly taking in this awful ...

Ed Balls | 483 c384 (Link to this contribution) In this case, one of our concerns is that the ““safe place to be”” procedure—a temporary placement w...

David Laws | 483 c378-9 (Link to this contribution) I start by thanking the Secretary of State for advance sight of today's statement and for his letter...

Ed Balls | 483 c380-1 (Link to this contribution) I will not repeat why I could not hand over the full serious case review, although, again, I looked ...

Ed Balls | 483 c378 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. His expertise and that of his Committee will be important in advising us on...

Speaker | 483 c383 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many Members are interested in this statement. I make a plea for short questions and ...

Ann Coffey | 483 c382 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely imperative that the supervision of children on child protection registers who live ...

Ed Balls | 483 c382-3 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate my hon. Friend's suggestion, because she has great expertise not only as a Member of Pa...

Ed Balls | 483 c382 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has experience of and expertise in these matters. For a long time, she has had detaile...

Graham Allen | 483 c381 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that the Government should focus not just on the specifics of this...

Ed Balls | 483 c381-2 (Link to this contribution) It is important that we focus on the specifics of the baby P case and take the action that is needed...

Ed Balls | 483 c372-4 (Link to this contribution) With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on the actions that I have take...

Lord Gove | 483 c374-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for prior notice of the statement, and for the co-operative approach ...

Barry Sheerman | 483 c378 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may know that the Children, Schools and Families Committee has been examining l...

Speaker | 483 c378 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman should not make a speech.

Ed Balls | 483 c391 (Link to this contribution) I always look exceptionally carefully at any recommendations from the Select Committee. I have done ...

David Chaytor | 483 c391 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that there are significant variations in the proportion of children at risk who a...

Ed Balls | 483 c390-1 (Link to this contribution) I should have explained earlier that a serious case review in a case such as this is finalised and p...

Shailesh Vara | 483 c390 (Link to this contribution) The House is rightly concerned about trying to ensure that similar tragedies do not occur in future,...

Ed Balls | 483 c390 (Link to this contribution) Last week was national adoption week, when we focused on encouraging foster and adoptive parents to ...

Ann Cryer | 483 c390 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend feel that enough is being done to encourage good people to offer themselve...

Ed Balls | 483 c390 (Link to this contribution) He is not in charge. He was seconded immediately at our instigation, with the agreement of Haringey,...

Peter Bone | 483 c390 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for the manner in which he made his statement, the way he has answere...

Ed Balls | 483 c390 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right, and I know that she has expertise in these matters. When such problem...

Mary Creagh | 483 c389 (Link to this contribution) The whole House shares in the sorrow, anger and revulsion of the country at the murder of this innoc...

Speaker | 483 c389 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am keen to allow everyone to make a contribution. Once again, I make a plea for short quest...

Ed Balls | 483 c389 (Link to this contribution) I will do that. It is something that I, the Secretary of State for Justice and the Secretary of Stat...

Jamie Reed | 483 c388 (Link to this contribution) I commend my right hon. Friend for the speed with which he instigated this investigation. It is the ...

Ed Balls | 483 c388 (Link to this contribution) We have discussed that issue with the hon. Gentleman many times, and we see no evidence for what he ...

Alistair Burt | 483 c389 (Link to this contribution) I want to take the Secretary of State back to the issue of increasing fees for public care proceedin...

Ed Balls | 483 c389 (Link to this contribution) It is my determination that we and they do so. I wrote to every director of children's services two ...

Ed Balls | 483 c387 (Link to this contribution) In my view, there should never be such barriers in any area, and if they are arising then action is ...

Michael Jack | 483 c387 (Link to this contribution) Children with severe learning difficulties are among the most vulnerable in our society. In the cont...

Ed Balls | 483 c387-8 (Link to this contribution) We are not only looking into that possibility but intending to act on it and trial it in some areas ...

Sharon Hodgson | 483 c387 (Link to this contribution) The Children, Schools and Families Committee is undertaking an investigation into looked-after child...

Speaker | 483 c388 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman should now bring his question to a conclusion.

John Hemming | 483 c388 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that I have been concerned for some time that judgment in such ...

Anne Begg | 483 c386-7 (Link to this contribution) Last week saw the publication of another very critical report on child protection services, focusing...

Ed Balls | 483 c386 (Link to this contribution) I understand that. It is important that we all make that point regularly from all parts of the House...

Tony Baldry | 483 c386 (Link to this contribution) One of the tasks that the Secretary of State has given Lord Laming is the development of a professio...

Ed Balls | 483 c386 (Link to this contribution) I will do that. In fact, I spoke to the director of Ofsted only this morning. In the next few weeks,...

Ed Balls | 483 c387 (Link to this contribution) How we properly follow up serious case reviews is important and urgent, and I have asked Lord Laming...

Fiona Mactaggart | 483 c385 (Link to this contribution) Will the children's work force review ensure that everyone in contact with a vulnerable child—teache...

Sally Keeble | 483 c386 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. He referred to a stock-take of local safeguard...

Ed Balls | 483 c385-6 (Link to this contribution) In this particular case, as the hon. Gentleman will know, the GMC has taken action concerning the pa...

Evan Harris | 483 c385 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said:"““We must never forget that our first duty is to make sure that all chi...

Ed Balls | 483 c385 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the issues that was highlighted in the joint inspectors' report in July and again in ...

Ed Balls | 483 c376-7 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by saying that I appreciate that support and co-operation. It is important that, togeth...

Baroness Featherstone | 483 c382 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I shall focus on Haringey. I wonder whether the Secretary of State agrees with me, becaus...

Subjects

Children Abuse Inspections HM Inspectorate of Constabulary Infanticide Protection Offences against children Social services Healthcare Commission Haringey Local safeguarding children boards Ofsted

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