Member

To come to the reasonable point that has been made by noble Lords about the detail of the implementation, although not—as I have just outlined—the principle of the change that is being made, of course it is important for us to be able to work alongside practitioners, leaders of children’s social care and experts in the field to be able to ensure that the implementation of this recommendation is what we would hope it would be for children. It is important to note that Clause 3 allows the Secretary of State to set out, in regulations, the day-to-day operations of multi-agency child protection teams—the requirements for members and the relevant agencies which can be required to co-operate with safeguarding partners. I remind noble Lords that this approach means that the sector, local partners, experts, pathfinder areas, national experts, DCSs and many of those mentioned today can all inform how these teams will work in the reformed system. What is more, the affirmative procedure will bring further scrutiny to these regulations as well.