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Local Government Services: Children

Answer

As the Minister with responsibility for the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme, I have attended the majority of meetings on the Innovation Programme at which Ministers have been present. These meetings have covered a wide range of issues in relation to the programme.

The first meeting about the Innovation Programme was held with my right hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Schools, in May 2013. The majority of meetings on the Innovation Programme since then have been the regular internal meetings I have with the programme team-to date, we have had over 10 such meetings.

Meetings about the Innovation Programme at which Ministers have been present which involved people other than staff of this Department include, for example, a

workshop I held with senior officials from across Whitehall to make the best of their experience and encourage coherence in terms of government programmes; several meetings with Councillor David Simmonds, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board; a meeting between my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and a meeting with young people and staff from Daybreak Family Group Conferences.

There have been a number of meetings on other topics at which I, and other Ministers in this Department, have taken the opportunity to discuss the Innovation Programme.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

205100; 584 cc725-6W

Session

2014-15

Subjects

Children Local government services Meetings

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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