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Lords Discuss Children and Social Work Bill In New Series

03 Friday Mar 2017

Posted by Natasha in child welfare, Researching Reform

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In a bid to inform and engage the public with the work of the House of Lords and its members, BBC2 have produced a series called Meet The Lords. 

The programme is designed to help the House shed its stuffy and ‘entitled’ image, with a detailed description of the focus of the series over on Parliament’s website which opens with this comment:

“Most members of the House of Lords are appointed for life (‘life peers’), and members no longer inherit their seats. Many members have a political background but many come from other professional backgrounds including medicine, the military, business, science and technology, the creative industries and the law.

Members come from different backgrounds and most faiths and ethnic groups in the UK are represented. Many remain active in their careers and apply their professional experience to the House’s work.”

The first episode is called “Meet The Lords” and invites you to listen to a selection of peers talking about their work and the Bills they’ve helped shape. One of the Bills discussed is the Children and Social Work Bill. Baroness King Of Bow, who was responsible for pushing an amendment through to remove a cap on child benefits for adopted children, talks about her efforts. You can watch the first episode here. 

Some interesting stats are offered too:

During the 2015-16 session, which ran from 27 May 2015 to 12 May 2016:

  • 78 bills were introduced
  • 3,678 changes were considered
  • 1,254 changes were made
  • 27 reports were produced by the main committees
  • 710 members spoke in debates
  • 779 voted in divisions
  • 321 were members of select committees

Having worked extensively with Lords on child welfare issues, Researching Reform is a passionate advocate of the House. Those we know are hard working and deeply committed to social justice, and we admire their courage to push against government policy when it risks harming children and families. A recent example of this can be seen in the way the Lords handled the government’s opt-out plans in the Children and Social Work Bill.

The second episode of Meet The Lords airs on BBC 2 on Monday 6th March, at 9pm.

Follow all the chat on Twitter with #MeetTheLords

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Urgent Call For Evidence: Children In Care And Care Leavers

03 Friday Mar 2017

Posted by Natasha in Researching Reform

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We tweeted about this call for evidence last week, but it’s too important a request not to share it again here.

The Children’s Commissioner and the National Children’s Bureau are hoping to:

  • Gather information on mechanisms used to seek the views, experiences and perceptions of children in care and care leavers.
  • Identify related sources of evidence produced since April 2015 that relate to the views, experiences and perceptions of children in care and care leavers.

The very good National IRO Managers Partnership website has a useful summary. An extract from their article is added below:

“The aim is to understand the current evidence base on views, experiences and perceptions of children in or leaving care. This will involve exploring methods used to engage with children, as well as the products of such engagement. Analysis will focus on whether it is feasible to describe a national picture by drawing on individual exercises from across England. This will inform the Children’s Commissioner of whether there is sufficient evidence to inform a future “State of the Nation” report on children in care and care leavers….

We therefore ask that IRO Managers respond to this important call for evidence with information on outputs published or unpublished, carried out since April 2015 related to:

  • Activities you undertake, or have undertaken to gather the views, experiences and perceptions of children in or leaving care.
  • Resulting published or unpublished outputs from these activities.”

If you know of anyone who might be interested in this call, please do share this post. This is an excellent example of organisations trying to amplify the voice of the child, which is so rarely done.

The deadline for submissions is 20th March, 2017.

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