Member

The reforms, which were also laid out in the paper published by the Government last year, are based on evidence from the Supporting Families programme, the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children programme, and from responses to recommendations made by Josh MacAlister in the independent care review and by the national child safeguarding review panel. I look forward to responding, in the detailed discussion we will have in Committee, to some of the issues raised by noble Lords in this House and by Professor Eileen Munro, who has a history in children’s social care. I hope and believe that we will be able to provide assurance around the evidence, the process and the outcomes that we seek to achieve—and, in fact, have begun to see already—in the proposals we are putting forward.