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Children, Schools and Families Bill

Proceeding contribution from Ed Balls (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 23 February 2010. It occurred during Debate on bills on Children, Schools and Families Bill.
I am listening carefully to the concerns raised by the hon. Lady—and, indeed, the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton)—that some practitioners, such as GPs, might not be willing to share information, because of the potential breach of parent confidentiality. Does she not think, however, that GPs might be more reluctant to share information in the compilation of a serious case review if they thought that it was going to be made public? Would that not make it less likely that GPs would co-operate with the process for the very reasons put forward by both Opposition Front-Bench teams, which seem wholly to contradict the argument that they made about the publication of serious case reviews?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
506 c195 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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