Clause 9 - Information databases
Children Bill [Lords]
2:30 pm
Dr Nick Palmer (PPS (Team PPS), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Broxtowe, Labour)
I agree that there is an issue about professionals operating at different thresholds. I doubt whether it is possible to solve that problem with guidelines from the national professional bodies. If the hon. Gentleman talks to teachers, social workers and others, they will tell him that either the guidelines will have to be so incredibly detailed that they will be impossible to draw up with any precision, or they will too broad to be useful in individual cases. Basically, professionals want to make these judgments themselves. If we try to impose guidelines either from the Government or from the professional bodies we will have difficulties.