Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I also thank other noble Lords who have participated in this debate. For me, the nub of this grouping has been the whole issue of prevention—I think “getting upstream” was the phrase my noble friend Lord Scriven used—and having in place within the community better and more responsive services, with the aim of reducing admissions to in-patient care but, at the same time, improving the in-patient care that is available, because the only people there are those for whom nothing else will work. It is very welcome that the Bill puts the dynamic support register on a statutory footing. On the two amendments from the noble Baroness, Lady Hollins, beefing that up still further, I think I heard a slightly encouraging response from the Minister. I will look carefully at Hansard tomorrow, as I am sure will the noble Lord, Lord Crisp, to see what was said. I can see that while some people may think that prevention is very important, they would ask what it has to do with this Bill. I do not see it like that. You have to take a system-wide approach. To get the whole mental health service working, even when you are looking at what I call the hard end—the crisis end—you have to look at what is happening at the preventive end and try to reduce the number of people who might need to be admitted. That would send an important message that there are clear legislative requirements for what services should be available within the community. This Bill, frankly, is the obvious place to do it—hence the amendments around children and young people that I raised. I was pleased to hear the Minister say that the transformation and the 10-year plan will apply at least as much to mental health as to physical health. That is very encouraging and I am glad that we have got it on record. I was not altogether surprised that the Minister thought that my amendments were unnecessary. I do not agree. I was not just talking about children and young people with learning disabilities and autism. They are obviously a very important group, but my rationale for trying to broaden it out to all children and young people was, in essence, to make sure that only those with the most complex needs would receive that higher-quality care in an in-patient setting—everyone would benefit from that approach. The Minister talked about a new approach to children’s and young people’s services, and I look forward to hearing more details. I do not know whether the Minister can tell us when we might expect to see that. Finally, my view is that the 1983 Act was never really designed with children and young people in mind; I think everyone agrees with that. This Bill is an opportunity for us to put children and young people centre stage—hence my amendment. This is such an important topic that I think we shall be returning to it on Report. On that basis, I beg leave to withdraw my amendment.