Children’s Social Care

I thank the Secretary of State for advance sight of her statement. I welcome the Government’s foc...

I can say to the right hon. Lady that we will absolutely do more. We are doing more in four month...

I call the Chair of the Education Committee.

I welcome the action that the Government have announced today to improve children’s social care. ...

My hon. Friend has long championed this cause and brings considerable expertise to the role that ...

I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

The review of children’s social care carried out by the hon. Member for Whitehaven and Workington...

The hon. Lady has rightly championed the cause of kinship carers for many years in this House, an...

I welcome this statement, which those of us with care experience, and those of us who have worked...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who has consistently shared his personal experience, and who has...

I call Graham Stuart.

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. [Interruption.] I did not mean to knock you down a peg, Mr Speaker;...

I am not quite sure how to begin to respond to the frankly extraordinary first part of the right ...

Years of inaction by previous Conservative Governments have led to vulnerable children feeling fo...

My hon. Friend brings real expertise to this House from her work in education. Education is also ...

For far too long, children’s services have been a Cinderella department. I am delighted that the ...

I agree that there is still much more that we need to do to support kinship carers and foster fam...

The almost 600 kinship carers in Portsmouth North welcome this Government’s prioritisation of kin...

My hon. Friend is right to highlight the fact that, sadly, a move to a different kind of placemen...

Five years ago, Bath and North East Somerset council’s budget for children’s services was £28 mil...

I agree that costs are spiralling out of control. More action is necessary to support councils in...

The Secretary of State will be aware that local authorities have a legal duty to house unintentio...

I agree, and the Deputy Prime Minister is determined to drive forward change in this area, not ju...

I warmly welcome today’s statement. The Secretary of State is right that it is long overdue, and ...

I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Whitehaven and Workington will speak for himself on ...

Having grown up in a kinship care setting, with my grandparents, I heartily welcome the content o...

I thank my hon. Friend for speaking about his experiences. He will know that until quite recently...

In the London borough of Sutton, we started to in-house some children’s care home provision back ...

Like the hon. Gentleman, I have seen good examples of councils across the country that have start...

Having spent 14 years watching children’s services struggle in the way the Secretary of State out...

My hon. Friend is right that there are many long-standing challenges in this area. On corporate p...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s broad commitment to reducing the number of children who need t...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady, and I am sure that the Under-Secretary of State for Education, my...

I thank all those working so hard to support vulnerable children in our country, and I thank the ...

As we take forward further proposals both for legislation and for wider change and reform across ...

I warmly welcome today’s statement from the Secretary of State. As a county councillor in Oxfords...

I agree, and I will be working very closely with the Chancellor and the Deputy Prime Minister in ...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s considerate focus. Children in care have died in unregulated acc...

I know that my hon. Friend, from her professional expertise before coming to this House, understa...

Somerset council is facing a £7.5 million overspend on children’s services this financial year, w...

I am working closely with the Deputy Prime Minister in this crucial area, and there will be more ...

I wish to associate myself with the comments of the Secretary of State. While children in care ar...

My hon. Friend is right to identify that, sadly, for too many care-experienced young people comin...

Devon county council children’s services was assessed by Ofsted in April. It found that the child...

We will look at all factors including the one identified by the hon. Gentleman, as well as at are...

In Derbyshire, the Conservative leader of the county council got in touch with me and other MPs i...

I agree with my hon. Friend, who is right to identify that there is support for such measures acr...

I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement. This is incredibly good news so I thank her very mu...

I can tell the hon. Gentleman that I am visiting Northern Ireland soon, when I look forward to di...

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s comments. The more I hear about this area, the more I think that...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for drawing the House’s attention to this area. I would be more t...

With more than 300 children in Hartlepool in social care, the council is being slowly bankrupted....

Private providers are making, in some cases, between 20% and 30% profit. That is way beyond what ...

Analysis by the Local Government Association reveals that the top 15 private children’s social ca...

It is vital that we drive up standards and quality in children’s social care placements, and we w...

I warmly welcome this statement, like all colleagues on the Government Benches and hopefully like...

I commend my hon. Friend and his council on the work they have undertaken to deliver better outco...

I welcome the reforming zeal of the Secretary of State in this area; her work has been outstandin...

I join my hon. Friend in praising the work of council staff and the many councils across our coun...

I am pleased to hear the statement on care leavers. Children who leave care have previously been ...

My hon. Friend is right to identify the urgent need to do more to support care leavers at the poi...

I welcome the statement and the robust steps the Government are taking for our children and young...

I agree with my hon. Friend: that joint working is important, and it provides much clearer suppor...

Children in care are some of the most vulnerable in our society, and many people in Sandwell are ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for sharing her and her constituents’ concerns with the House. We...

The outcomes for children and families involved in the children’s social care system are some of ...

I pay tribute to my hon. Friend for his tremendous work in this area. I am delighted that we have...

I thank the Secretary of State for her statement, and the Under-Secretary of State for Education,...

My hon. Friend’s local authority has done brilliant work in this area. We are keen to build on th...

It is so refreshing to see a Labour Secretary of State take action on profiteering in our local a...

I am grateful for all my hon. Friend’s work in this area. She is right that councils were left at...

In my time as a councillor and corporate parent, nothing was more distressing than the complex sa...

We are calling time on the excess profiteering of big private providers, which are seeing profits...

It is brilliant to see a Secretary of State take this issue so seriously and get a grip on it so ...

My hon. Friend is right. There are big differences based on geography. I find it quite astounding...