Member

As noble Lords can see, this is a qualitatively and legally different set of responsibilities than it would be possible to envisage for education and childcare, given the diversity of provision. There is not an equivalent partner in the education area that could carry that out. This is not to say that we should not up the way in which education and childcare is involved. That is the reason Clause 2 ensures that education and childcare agencies are automatically and consistently involved in multiagency safeguarding arrangements across England, so that no opportunity to protect children should be missed.