Clause 10 - Establishment of LSCBs
Children Bill [Lords]
3:15 pm
Mrs Eleanor Laing (Shadow Minister for Women, Family; Epping Forest, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 38, in
clause 10, page 9, line 41, after 'Service', insert 'or its successor body'.
I commend this amendment to the Committee. It simply seeks to amend subsection (3)(h). Subsection (3) currently reads:
''For the purposes of this section each of the following is a Board partner of a children's services authority in England—''.
The eighth organisation mentioned in paragraph (h) is the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service. It is widely recognised that that organisation does not work as well as it should. I put the point mildly. I would go much further and say that CAFCASS is not doing the job that it should do, but this is neither the time nor place to go into that in great detail.