Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

I feel the need to point out that social work led some of these issues in the 1970s, and that we have lost it. During the 1970s and 1980s, one of my first jobs in a local authority was as assistant training officer looking after the apprentice social workers, the untrained social workers, in Lambeth social services department. They were sent off as trainees to the universities with which we had strong relationships. In exchange, the universities provided extra courses for our social workers and we provided placements for social workers on courses. Some of those relationships continue today, so we should not forget that social work has a strong reputation in working jointly with universities, and long may that continue.