Child Poverty Bill
5:18 pm
Paul Carter: I find them quite reluctant partners. In sharing the data and the information, the data protection gets in the way. You are trying to get a handle on what is going on in a highly socially deprived ward, but getting that information is—for perhaps legitimate data protection reasons—a real problem. There is an enormous reluctance to focus in on some of those vulnerable families that are significantly benefit-dependent—you need to look at and share the data on them to find the solutions.