Member

The noble Baroness also asked about the advance warning. It is of course the case that we will need to be careful and sophisticated about the point at which we issue an advance warning. This is on the basis that the issuing of a warning could itself cause commissioners to withdraw children from a provider and therefore precipitate what we are all trying to avoid. Finding the right moment to do that is something that we will consider very carefully, to ensure that local authorities can make any necessary contingency arrangements without precipitating the failure of precisely the organisation that we are trying to ensure does not leave the market at that point.