Member

I now turn to Amendment 167, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler of Enfield, which seeks to place a duty on local authorities to report to the Secretary of State on the delivery of early intervention services. I very much agree with her contention that we need to be able to monitor and evaluate the extent to which early intervention is delivered and what the successful methods of doing that are. I am not sure that that requires what I suspect would be quite a burdensome annual report to the Secretary of State, but I wholly agree that we need to be clear about monitoring and evaluation. We need to know more about what is working.