Member

I very much look forward to the Minister’s response to the amendment, in the name of my noble friend Lady Sanderson of Welton, to look at the planning regulations in relation to small children’s homes. As my noble friend said, there is very little in practice to distinguish them from many family homes, and that could unblock some of their capacity and cost constraints that local authorities face today, which are a block to achieving some of the crucial aspirations that we all have for children in care.