Speeches by Paffey.

“Q I want to pick up on the previous point about the curriculum floor. I wonder whether the panel agree that the opportunities of a broad, balanced curriculum that is modern, engaging and offered regardless of the badge and branding over the school door should be available to young people everywhere. Would you consider …”

“Q To what extent does the regional co-operation deal with sufficiency? Katharine Sacks-Jones: I think there are benefits to be had in regional commissioning. We are concerned to ensure that provision for children is not then condensed in certain areas of a region, which could mean children still being moved great dista…”

“Q Clauses 13 and 14 make provision for the financial oversight of care providers, and clause 9 looks at better regional arrangements for accommodation. What are your views on how effective that will be in improving provision for the care of children? Katharine Sacks-Jones: As I said earlier, these are welcome measures.…”

“Q The Bill seeks to move on from a fixation on structures and get back to outcomes and wellbeing. If I have understood your earlier comments, you welcome that. Do you think the Bill will sufficiently break that link between a child’s background and their future success? Do you believe that the measures will move us clo…”

“Q Are those expectations clear enough? Julie McCulloch: I think they could probably be clearer.”

“Q The Bill proposes a number of measures on illegal children’s homes and a topic you have already mentioned a couple of times—deprivation of liberty, when that does not necessarily need to be in a secure children’s home. What are your reflections on how effective that is going to be in terms of protecting vulnerable ch…”

“Q My main question is about safeguarding. I know from experience that the good relationships between the different agencies, particularly schools and the local authorities, are forged locally, and therefore they depend on almost a bit of a lottery. Do you think that mandating will resolve that issue? Will that satisfy …”

“Q I would like to ask about the requirement for local authorities to offer Staying Close. We have seen some success with that in Southampton, but from the direct work of both your organisations, do you think that the Staying Close offer meets the most pressing needs of care leavers, or are there other things that the B…”

“T3. The national youth strategy is a crucial step forward, and I welcome its progress. Will the Secretary of State outline how new youth programmes, such as the better youth spaces initiative, will help to rebuild facilities in Southampton Itchen, where years of Conservative cuts have impacted opportunities for our you…”

“T3. The national youth strategy is a crucial step forward, and I welcome its progress. Will the Secretary of State outline how new youth programmes, such as the better youth spaces initiative, will help to rebuild facilities in Southampton Itchen, where years of Conservative cuts have impacted opportunities for our you…”

“The hon. Member mentioned directors. I think we all agree that the strength of this Bill is its clarity, but in his new clause, he has chosen to write “any individual”. Does he agree that it is the directors, not the catering team, the cleaning staff, the admin people, the accountants and so on, who have sought to swin…”

“This Committee heard from Sir Martyn Oliver of Ofsted last week that it intends to bring in measures to look at what inclusivity means and make its judgments partly based on that. It will need a framework from the Department so that it knows what it is looking for. What is your intention for how you monitor and measure…”

“I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement and for the measured, practical and common-sense approach that it takes, which is in sharp contrast to what we are hearing on the Opposition Benches at the moment. Although we will always defend their right to their opinions, a right to their own facts is rather regrettabl…”

“Good morning, Secretary of State. One of the biggest, if not the biggest, issues facing families, children and professionals is special educational needs and disability and how we best care for and get the best for those children. You have set the direction of travel as inclusivity in mainstream and as the first downpa…”

“Finally, when do you expect to have that package of expectations ready and in some kind of format to share with us and with the sector?”

“I probably should have declared the interest that I worked in a university for 20 years. I appreciate your answers on that. You were very clear with universities when you removed the fee freeze that you expected more in terms of widening participation and other measures and that more would come. As part of that reform,…”

“Turning to higher education, I know you are very alive to the challenge of higher education funding and you announced the measure to remove the freeze on fees. Even taking into account that measure, the Office for Students has warned that three-quarters of universities and other higher education settings could be in fi…”

“Secretary of State, the condition of school buildings, certainly in my constituency and across the country, was a source of huge concern in the last Parliament. We had the RAAC crisis, what funding there was was limited and my experience was certainly that that tended to be more readily available to preferred models of…”

“Thank you, Mr Vickers—so keen was I to support the clause that I tried to speak to it too early. I appreciate your forbearance. Clause 3 has my full support. As I mentioned, I live in an area served by Southern Water. The citizen scientists on the River Itchen have done such good work that they regularly and consistent…”

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