Member

It is critical that, in the learning, we learn who we need to work with. We need to make sure that we are collaborative and work across all the different departments. DfE is obviously critical in this, but it has to work hand in glove with the Department of Health and Social Care, the UK Health Security Agency, the Chief Medical Officer, other government departments and, of course, local authorities. From experience, I have to say that one of the mistakes the Government made was not taking enough heed of the fact that every local authority has a director of public services, and perhaps that co-ordination could have been undertaken in a more constructive way.