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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 14 January 2026
Debate
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillContribution
While appropriate for initial test and learn work, that approach also worked outside the day-to-day systems that social workers use. We want to work with a small number of additional local authorities so that we can continue to build evidence about matching rates and issues, but, ultimately, scaling the original approach would be neither practical nor proportionate.
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