Member

Amendment 116B, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Cash, would require local authorities within regional care co-operatives to assess sufficiency of placements in their area and publish and implement a plan to address this. As I explained earlier, regional care co-operatives will assist local authorities precisely by analysing future accommodation needs for looked-after children across the region, by publishing sufficiency strategies, by recruiting foster parents and by commissioning care places, as set out in this clause. I take her point about data: later, I will come to a bit more detail about what data the department is collecting and what data local authorities will be expected to collect and use to inform the regional care co-operatives.