Part of Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:00 pm on 11 February 2025.
Munira Wilson
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Education, Children and Families)
2:00,
11 February 2025
It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon, Mr Betts. New Clause 30 is a simple clause that would put into statute the duty on every local authority to publish the details of their available preventive care and family support, because we know that those are crucial forms of early Intervention for children who may be at risk of going into care or where families are struggling. They can prevent things getting to crisis point for families and children.
We know that a huge amount of good work is going on in local authorities up and down the country. Spending on preventive care is falling, while late intervention spend is rising, so it would be good practice for all local authorities to make that information freely and easily accessible to all families in the way that we have already legislated for, for instance, with the kinship care offer. I hope Ministers will seriously consider this simple new clause.
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A parliamentary bill is divided into sections called clauses.
Printed in the margin next to each clause is a brief explanatory `side-note' giving details of what the effect of the clause will be.
During the committee stage of a bill, MPs examine these clauses in detail and may introduce new clauses of their own or table amendments to the existing clauses.
When a bill becomes an Act of Parliament, clauses become known as sections.
An intervention is when the MP making a speech is interrupted by another MP and asked to 'give way' to allow the other MP to intervene on the speech to ask a question or comment on what has just been said.
