Member

The Bill includes several important measures, which, when combined, will improve the quality and effectiveness of safeguarding and child protection, including strengthening information sharing through the new unique identifier—which we will come on to in a moment—and the establishment of multi-agency child protection teams, which will provide children with a more timely, sensitive, skilled and coherent response. There has been a challenge—particularly from the noble Baroness, Lady Barran—about the extent to which we are clear about how these fit together. I am more than happy to share a slide I have here, which shows exactly how they fit together. That is based on the work we have done already. I am very happy to share it and the argument we set out in the policy paper last autumn with other noble Lords. Let me be absolutely clear: every child deserves to be protected from harm, and legislating for these teams will take us a significant step closer to making sure that action is co-ordinated to protect every child from every type of harm, whether that it is inside or outside the home.