Schedule 1 - Children's Commissioner
Children Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative)
In her explanation of subsection (2) the Minister has raised an issue of which I was not aware. She said that in the Victoria Climbie case, the social services inspectorate, who is a person, and the local government ombudsman, who is also a person, had the function but did not undertake the work. Is she saying that the commissioner may not investigate only when an investigation has been or is being conducted, or when in law a case could have been investigated? If it is the latter, the commissioner would not have been able to investigate most aspects of the Victoria Climbie case, because they were covered by the function of another person.