Member

On the point made by the noble Baronesses, Lady Berridge and Lady Barran, about the handover between two social workers, I responded to this previously, but I will just take that a bit further now. There is no duplication of roles in what is being proposed. It is about an integrated system. Keeping children’s relationships with family help lead practitioners is really important. As I outlined previously, for child protection cases, those family help practitioners will be qualified social workers—we are completely clear about that—and child protection expertise through the multi-agency teams will be wrapped around that. The family help lead practitioner will be a key part of the child protection discussion. It is all about information sharing and joint decision-making.