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Westminster Hall
Family Justice Reform - Wed 15 Nov 2017
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Grandparents come to me and tell me about their cases, and I understand the heartache and pain they feel - Speech Link
2: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) parents and children, including parental rights and responsibilities and the interplay of children’s - Speech Link
3: Yasmin Qureshi (LAB - Bolton South East) Members for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (John Lamont) and for Lanark and Hamilton East (Angela - Speech Link
4: Phillip Lee (LDEM - Bracknell) The Government have always been clear that the right to permanence option—whether adoption, special guardianship - Speech Link


Petitions
Adoption - Tue 05 Sep 2017
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None the use of adoption targets by Local Authorities and whether they impact on the independence of evidence - Speech Link
2: None Whilst it believes that adoption can be the right permanence option for some children, it is also clear - Speech Link
3: None will not agree to adoption as a plan unless that is also believed to be right for the child”. - Speech Link
4: None Adoption is one permanence option that is open for a local authority to consider. - Speech Link
5: None ; and they may also seek leave to appeal a decision to make an adoption order. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children and Social Work Bill [ Lords ] (Seventh sitting)
Committee Debate: 7th sitting: House of Commons - Thu 12 Jan 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Emma Lewell-Buck (LAB - South Shields) bar the parents agreed upon, was adoption. - Speech Link
2: Emma Lewell-Buck (LAB - South Shields) The duty already exists for adoption; adoption support services legislation states that an adoption support - Speech Link
3: Emma Lewell-Buck (LAB - South Shields) , and there should be a requirement, as with adoption, for thorough and robust assessment, including - Speech Link
4: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) about permanence options for children who cannot live with their birth parents. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children and Social Work Bill [ Lords ] (Third sitting)
Committee Debate: 3rd sitting: House of Commons - Thu 15 Dec 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) are considering all the permanence options available.The family is, of course, the most important building - Speech Link
2: Emma Lewell-Buck (LAB - South Shields) wider context of overall Government policy relating to children in care and plans for permanence. - Speech Link
3: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) and not risking lapsing back into bad old habits and bad old days, when adoption was misused and abused - Speech Link
4: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) Lady accept that the adoption paper is about adoption, and that there is another Government paper—we - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children and Social Work Bill [ Lords ] (Second sitting)
Committee Debate: 2nd sitting: House of Commons - Tue 13 Dec 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) educational achievement of children who ceased to be looked after by the local authority as a result of a permanence - Speech Link
2: None information as those who cease to be looked after as a result of adoption, special guardianship orders - Speech Link
3: None It cannot be right that those children who have been adopted or have found permanence through special - Speech Link
4: None order (within the meaning given by section 72(1) of the Adoption Act 1976 or section 46(1) of the Adoption - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Children and Social Work Bill [Lords]
2nd reading: House of Commons - Mon 05 Dec 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Nick Gibb (CON - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton) The next section of the Bill recognises that children who are adopted or who leave care under another permanence - Speech Link
2: Angela Rayner (LAB - Ashton-under-Lyne) taken several steps to make it easier to adopt, such as the Education and Adoption Act 2016 —and we - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) The reform of fostering and adoption regulations has helped not only fosterers and adopters, but, most - Speech Link
4: Kelly Tolhurst (CON - Rochester and Strood) The stakes are high with adoption. - Speech Link
5: Edward Timpson (CON - Eddisbury) More children are receiving that adoption support and I know that my hon. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children and Social Work Bill [HL]
Report: 2nd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Tue 08 Nov 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) Because adoption, unlike any other permanent option, involves the ending of a child’s legal relationship - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) in the real world”.The mantra of test and learn that emerged from the adoption of an agile approach - Speech Link
3: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) and implementation, and to engage children and young people in the process. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) the Refugee Children’s Consortium argues, a safeguarding strategy,“should also be a plan for future permanence - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children and Social Work Bill [HL]
Report: 1st sitting: House of Lords - Tue 18 Oct 2016
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (LAB - Life peer) It does not focus on permanence. - Speech Link
2: Lord Warner (CB - Life peer) The second briefing said: “You cannot rely on adoption to deliver permanence. - Speech Link
3: Lord Nash (CON - Life peer) and adoption agencies in England. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Wales Bill
2nd reading (Hansard - continued): House of Lords - Mon 10 Oct 2016
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howarth of Newport (LAB - Life peer) What about advertising, charities or adoption services? - Speech Link
2: Lord Elis-Thomas (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The early clauses of the Bill talk about the permanence of the National Assembly, but I want to know - Speech Link
3: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (CON - Life peer) into the purely philosophical, another issue that the noble Lord, Lord Elis-Thomas, mentioned was the permanence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Wales Bill - Mon 12 Sep 2016
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: None Saville Roberts), who sought to insert into the Government of Wales Act 2006 separate statements on the permanence - Speech Link
2: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) That follows the adoption by the Welsh Assembly last year of a Back-Bench motion, supported by Members - Speech Link
3: Mark Williams (LDEM - Ceredigion) 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 is that the new sections about the permanence of the Assembly and the Welsh Government - Speech Link
4: Paul Flynn (LAB - Newport West) It is a poem that celebrates the permanence of Wales, its language and spirit:“Aros mae’r mynyddau mawr - Speech Link