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No one is suggesting that our system is perfect. However, in her 2011 report to the then Secretary of State—then my very recent noble friend Lord Gove—Professor Munro warned against too much focus on process over the quality and effectiveness of help given. Today, 14 years later, directors of children’s services are telling me that the DfE’s approach to these reforms is all about process and not practice. I could add other questions about referral criteria, capacity, membership, special educational needs and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children—there are all sorts of questions worthy of debate, but today I will focus on those three.