Member

Clause 3 needs to be seen together with the changes to early help, targeted help and the response to children under Section 17 of the Children Act, as my noble friend Lady Berridge said, which is set out in various bits of guidance—now running, I am told, to several hundred pages—and funding announcements published this year by the department. The Government must remember that safeguarding, from early universal help to child protection and care proceedings, is like a carefully woven or embroidered cloth: if you pull on one thread, you need to understand how it will affect all the others.