🗣️ Speeches and Debates
-
Does the Minister recall the Public Services Committee’s report on the transition of young people with a disability from education into adult services? The evidence showed that there was a remarkable divergence. In some parts of the country, local authorities demonstrated quite inspiring work in getting young people with disabilities into work; in other parts of the country, the parents...
-
My Lords, one of the groups most disadvantaged and, I regret to say, ignored at times, is unpaid carers—those who have taken on the care of a very disabled child or an elderly relative. Will the Minister continue her work to persuade all the services to be altogether more sensitive to carers and, most of all, to accord them the dignity and care that they need?
-
My Lords, I was told in a discussion with a carer coping with the day-by-day, hour-by-hour demands of looking after someone with severe dementia that when they got a hospital appointment, the doctor spent a great deal of time looking at the screen and firing off questions to the patient. Frankly, the patient did not recognise where she was, and when the carer intervened to help, they were...
-
My Lords, in support of the initiatives that I know the Minister is very much involved with and has mentioned, could he say what progress he is making to reduce the number of prisoners being released on a Friday afternoon?
-
My Lords, does the Minister agree that, to the average lay person, such as myself, it seems strange that the prosecution services can bring serious charges against two people and, for 18 months, these charges remain and the court is convened to prosecute these charges, and then at the 11th hour it is said that they do not have sufficient evidence? To the lay person, that seems extremely strange.
-
My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Monckton. Does the Minister agree that we are still writing off too many young people as unemployable because the focus has been on what they cannot do, rather than concentrating on what they would be enabled to do with the right kind of support and help? Does the Minister agree that we really need to change our attitude to be...
-
My Lords, the Minister may well have seen an interview with some young people at the end of last term. They are in a school where there has been agreement between the school, the parents and the young people that there will be no screen time, other than for educational purposes, in the school. The thing that was most striking about the reaction of these young people was how they had made a...
-
My Lords, the Minister will know that, as many more people are, thankfully, surviving longer despite having severe disabilities or illnesses, and as we are all ageing, there are more people living in the community than in hospitals who need continuing medical care and social support. The department is not just the Department of Health; it is the Department of Health and Social Care. In the...
More of Lord Laming's speeches and debates
✍️ Written Questions and Answers
-
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that local authorities facing budgetary problems continue to fulfil their statutory responsibilities.
-
To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to address the fact that 34 per cent of children in care moved home at least once during their GCSE or A level years, as estimated by the charity Become in their recent report Moving during exams: the instability crisis affecting children in care.
-
To ask His Majesty's Government whether local authority social care services are funded and equipped to meet the needs of the 621,880 children referred to them in 2024.
-
To ask His Majesty's Government whether all restrictions preventing local authorities from building new special education schools have been removed.
-
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they are making in controlling the profits made by private organisations operating in the childcare sector.
-
To ask His Majesty's Government whether the costs levied by private providers of special educational needs schools are being monitored and controlled.
-
To ask His Majesty's Government what progress they are making in improving the efficiency of handling complaints about the use of interpreters in the courts system.
-
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that chairs of family group conferences are fully trained.
More of Lord Laming's written questions
