Member

Reflecting on Amendment 121A, I understand where the noble Baroness, Lady Barran, is coming from, but I share some of the concerns expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Crisp, that we need to see. For the first time ever, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Wei, on one of his amendments—calm down, calm down. It is all very well for us to agree amendments and walk away thinking “Haven’t we done well?” But we also need to make sure that we put the resources and correct staffing in, and that often does not happen, because we have not got the resources or the staffing. We all know from our own experiences of times when we have agreed something and suddenly there is no social worker available, or the social worker has moved, or something else has not happened. That cannot be right, so we need to foolproof any amendments that we make.