Member

I am going to use the “non-stigmatising” word—though I am aware the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, finds it a bit of a mouthful—but it is an important principle that the door to the service is not something that only families with problems walk through; it is a door that lots of families walk through to get support. The non-stigmatising label is terribly important to make sure that everyone is able to access this service and it does not provide any sort of stigma. We know that local authorities have so little funding they are delivering only their statutory responsibilities. If it is not statutory and politics changes, we will see the same see-saw—the same creation and destruction of services—that we have seen before. Surely, we want to get off that see-saw.