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Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (11 Nov 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: A year ago today, we heard the verdict in the baby Peter case and started to understand the horrors behind that tragically short life. Ministers rightly said that it should never happen again. Today the Local Government Association has produced a report showing that 60 per cent. of local authorities are struggling to retain and recruit key child protection social workers. We know how...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: ContactPoint (12 Oct 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: I could quote to the Minister several consultant paediatricians who think that their job of dealing with child protection will be compromised by the use of ContactPoint. Will the Minister therefore confirm how many people have applied to have their children's details shielded on ContactPoint and how many of them are Ministers—including himself, perhaps? If he is completely happy with...

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: We have had a good and full debate for a Thursday afternoon, with some excellent contributions from both sides of the House on a range of different subjects. Different expertise was introduced into the debate, starting with the right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) who spoke about child trafficking. My hon. Friend the Member for Leominster (Bill Wiggin) catalogued all the very...

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: World war two.

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: I have listened to what the hon. Gentleman has said. Surely the point is that academies take over failing schools to improve the educational chances of the people there, and although it is early to say so, their record is good. Furthermore, I am sure that he will acknowledge the importance of continuity of education in a familiar environment for the young person in care, whenever possible. If...

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: On a point of information, we have never before had a debate on vulnerable and looked-after children in Government time, but we have had debates on that subject in Opposition time.

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: Misery.

Estimates Day — [3rd Allotted Day] — Department for Children, Schools and Families: Looked-after Children (2 Jul 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: Let me bring the hon. Gentleman back to cost and Denmark, about which I would like to make a comment if I have an opportunity. I was there about three years ago and visited some of the homes that I think his Committee visited. Interestingly, although a lot of extra money goes into training and child care in Denmark, the cost of housing children in some residential homes, including the one...

Safeguarding Children (Sexual Exploitation) (23 Jun 2009)

Tim Loughton: I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen), who has enormous expertise in this area and has campaigned on it for many years. It is unfortunate that there are not more hon. Members here today, because this important subject affects all our constituencies. I know that there are trafficked women in Worthing in my constituency, and the hon. Member for Mid-Dorset and North...

Safeguarding Children (Sexual Exploitation) (23 Jun 2009)

Tim Loughton: No, my hon. Friend was right earlier when he said that we need a worldwide approach. That is why I said that even if we are good at finding the people who are promoting this stuff and posting it on the internet in this country, a lot of such activity is happening in Alaska, Florida, Russia and assorted Pacific islands that are not properly regulated. That is why I refer to the problem as an...

Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Macdonald Review (15 Jun 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: May I add my welcome for the addition of the hon. Lady to the Secretary of State's burgeoning team, and the addition of the right hon. Member for Bristol, South (Dawn Primarolo), who will be the third Minister for Children that I have faced in recent years? Can the Parliamentary Under-Secretary tell me why, after 12 years of Labour Government and all the changes made to PSHE, we still have...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: And I bet he doesn't take interventions from them.

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: May I first, in this era of heightened precaution, declare my entry in the Register of Members' Interests and my interest as a vice-chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on autism, a subject which features large in the debate? As my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (John Bercow) said, the attendance today is perhaps unfortunate. I hope that it represents the fact that many of...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: I entirely agree, and I shall outline in a little more detail some proposals that we would like to put more teeth into provision—to go much further than my hon. Friend's reasonable Bill. We all face the problem of joined-up action. Responsibilities for various aspects of SEN are vested in schools, children's centres, primary care trusts and local authority departments, but parents and...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: The hon. Lady makes a valid point. These cases can be an enormous financial and emotional drain on the parents, whether they are slightly better-off middle-class people or not. What I resent more than anything is the culture of brinkmanship in certain local authority education departments. They wait and see just how far they can push it before the parents drop their quest. I have had cases in...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We must consider not only the cost of the in-house staff but the even greater cost of the external legal specialists who are employed by the local authority to fight the cases against these poor, unsuspecting parents. A enormous amount of money is wasted: witness the huge number of appeals—not just one or two—that are upheld in favour of the...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: That is a very fair point; I absolutely endorse it. More legislation and regulation are not always the answer. We require the right legislation and regulation, and for them to be appropriate and effective. I fear that a lot of what this Government have done over recent years has been about piling regulation on regulation, which has completely queered the pitch in this case. The benchmark of...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: I cannot give the exact reference here, but I think that the hon. Lady will find it in the Bow Group report, "SEN: The Truth about Inclusion", which was produced last year. A lot of interesting research data were collected as part of the report. If we make more money follow the child, we put parents in the driving seat. However, doing so will achieve more than that: it will encourage other...

Prayers: Special Educational Needs and Disability (Support) Bill (15 May 2009) has video

Tim Loughton: What the hon. Lady is saying is very interesting. I recently visited a home for foetal alcohol-damaged children in Copenhagen, and I think that the condition could well be responsible for many more disabilities than has been acknowledged—some of which may have been attributed to autism, which displays similar characteristics. I feel that it merits a great deal more investigation.

Schools (Health Support) Bill (8 May 2009)

Tim Loughton: The hon. Gentleman is making a good case for his Bill and I agree with him about the problems that he alludes to. I recently went out with school nurses who were training teachers in how to administer adrenaline for a particular child who had various allergies and might suffer anaphylactic shock. This is an eminently sensible way of ensuring that teachers are on hand and trained in what to do...