Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Lab)

My Lords, I welcome the Statement from the Government. It is uplifting to see the shift from being just the corporate parent to it being our responsibility—all our responsibilities—to ensure that for those children who enter the care system, for reasons we may not like and they may not like, we understand that the important thing for them is enduring relationships. I want to ask my noble friend about one aspect of the Statement in particular: long-lasting relationships. I have done work with Family Rights Group for many years now. It did the initial work on this, which has been followed up by Foundations, the What Works Centre, asking how you establish for young people in the last couple of years before they leave care a lifelong relationship. All your children will have aunts, uncles, cousins and friends they can go to, even when they have fallen out with their mum and dad. These children have no one. I know from talking with them that, when they re-establish a relationship with a long-distance schoolteacher they had a good relationship with, or with somebody from their nursery or another area of their life, or they find a long-distance relative they did not know about, it makes an enormous difference. I know we are going to make sure that Ofsted is covering these things. Can my noble friend assure me that the slimmed-down Ofsted will have the resources to make sure these changes have the real effect that they are meant to?