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Ministerial statement on Thursday, 12 March 2009, in the House of Commons, led by Ed Balls.

Lord Laming's Progress Report

Statement on Lord Laming's independent progress report on child protection, and the government's response. (HC 330 2008-09).

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
489 c463-79 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Martin Salter | 489 c478 (Link to this contribution) I entirely endorse the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Slough (Fiona Mactaggart) regarding ...
Ed Balls | 489 c478 (Link to this contribution) As I said, Reading is one of the authorities where we have sent in our diagnostic team—and I must sa...
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Dari Taylor | 489 c478 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement, but I ask him to acknowledge once again that soci...
Ed Balls | 489 c478 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. As I have said, social workers are often unsung heroes doing a v...
Ed Balls | 489 c478 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. He, too, has great professional expertise in this area. It is vital for us ...
Paul Burstow | 489 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement. He referred to the compelling logic behind the rep...
Ed Balls | 489 c479 (Link to this contribution) I was clear that supporting the training of leadership, management and front-line social work is a p...
Graham Allen | 489 c479 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State accept that the best time to safeguard a child is in the generation befo...
Ed Balls | 489 c479 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I am fully happy with my hon. Friend's last analogy, but I agree with what he say...
Joan Walley | 489 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's response to the report, but will he say a little more about the iss...
Ed Balls | 489 c476 (Link to this contribution) I will. The improvement notice applying to Birmingham is critically about public confidence, which m...
Richard Burden | 489 c476 (Link to this contribution) As was pointed out by my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart), there is a gr...
Ed Balls | 489 c476 (Link to this contribution) We will accelerate our efforts to ensure that it happens. My hon. Friend and I have met to discuss t...
Kerry McCarthy | 489 c477 (Link to this contribution) When considering child protection issues, will my right hon. Friend heed the worries about informal ...
Ed Balls | 489 c477 (Link to this contribution) That is something that I have challenged the taskforce to consider. It is an important responsibilit...
David Kidney | 489 c477 (Link to this contribution) There has been a damaging lack of clarity in regard to the training, responsibility and status of so...
Ed Balls | 489 c477 (Link to this contribution) The local safeguarding children board has a vital role, not just as a watchdog for children who are ...
Dan Norris | 489 c477 (Link to this contribution) Those who harm children by using intimidation and violence against them often act in the same way to...
Ed Balls | 489 c477 (Link to this contribution) That is a critical responsibility for the local authority and the children's trusts. In the case of ...
Ed Balls | 489 c474 (Link to this contribution) It is important for the recommendations to be implemented not just in West Sussex but in every other...
Ed Balls | 489 c475 (Link to this contribution) It might be more helpful if Conservative Members did not urge local authorities not to implement the...
Shailesh Vara | 489 c475 (Link to this contribution) Following previous tragedies such as that of Victoria Climbié, there have been many inquiries and re...
Ed Balls | 489 c475 (Link to this contribution) Every serious case review must be subject to a full, comprehensive and public executive summary, and...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 489 c475 (Link to this contribution) In his statement, my right hon. Friend said that improvement notices and additional support were now...
Ed Balls | 489 c475 (Link to this contribution) We will have responded to all the recommendations by the end of April. In the spring we will change ...
Peter Bone | 489 c475 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has accepted Lord Laming's recommendations and taken action to implement them...
Ed Balls | 489 c476 (Link to this contribution) It is vital for undergraduate education in social work to be of the highest quality, and to prepare ...
Ann Coffey | 489 c476 (Link to this contribution) Abacus, in my constituency, is one of the first health-led Sure Start centres, and its success in in...
Lord Gove | 489 c466-8 (Link to this contribution) The events that we are reflecting on today were horrific and they still haunt the nation's conscienc...
Ed Balls | 489 c470 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend, whose Committee has great responsibilities in these matters, that Sir R...
Annette Brooke | 489 c470-1 (Link to this contribution) I, too, thank the Secretary of State for providing sight of the Laming report and of his statement. ...
Ed Balls | 489 c468-70 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the careful way in which the hon. Gentleman has responded to Lord Laming's conclusions....
Barry Sheerman | 489 c470 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State's statement and congratulate Lord Laming on a thoughtful report. I ...
Phyllis Starkey | 489 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Minister what steps are being taken to improve the training of Ofsted inspectors and O...
Ed Balls | 489 c473 (Link to this contribution) The issue is raised by Lord Laming in his report, the chief inspector is alive to it and the Select ...
Ed Balls | 489 c471-2 (Link to this contribution) While I was, of course, disappointed that the Liberals' shadow spokesman could not be here, the hon....
Speaker | 489 c472 (Link to this contribution) Order. It is clear that a large number of hon. Members seek to catch my eye. Unless both questions a...
Edward Timpson | 489 c473 (Link to this contribution) One of the major failings of the court system involving children in child protection is the movement...
Ed Balls | 489 c473 (Link to this contribution) Lord Laming does not raise that issue particularly in his report, but we will make sure that we keep...
Meg Munn | 489 c473 (Link to this contribution) Thousands of words have been written about cases that have tragically gone wrong. Will my right hon....
Ed Balls | 489 c473 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right and has great expertise in these matters. The doctor who performs...
Andrew MacKay | 489 c473 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State share my concern that it was not necessarily always a good idea to merge...
Tony Wright | 489 c474 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome what my right hon. Friend has said, but does not the fact that we keep returning...
Ed Balls | 489 c474 (Link to this contribution) The fact is, though, that there has been great change on the ground, and we will ensure that that is...
Lord Young of Cookham | 489 c474 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that there has been a high turnover of front-line staff in children...
Ed Balls | 489 c474 (Link to this contribution) The answer is the advanced professional status that we have announced today. It is important that so...
Laura Moffatt | 489 c474 (Link to this contribution) Crawley residents were horrified to learn that West Sussex was on the list of those authorities whos...
Ed Balls | 489 c463-6 (Link to this contribution) In November last year, I commissioned an urgent inspection of children's services in Haringey follow...
Ed Balls | 489 c474 (Link to this contribution) As I pointed out in my response to the Opposition spokesman, there is a widespread consensus on the ...
Fiona Mactaggart | 489 c475-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the emphasis on training in both Lord Laming's report and my right hon. Friend's statement...
Subjects
Children Care proceedings Accountability Fees and charges ICT Inspections Protection Police Public appointments Management Training Social services Social workers Government responses Independent Safeguarding Authority Children's services authorities Doncaster Local safeguarding children boards Children's trusts Protection of Children in England Inquiry National Safeguarding Delivery Unit Ofsted
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