Coram’s Charter for Children Debate
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Baroness Butler-Sloss
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Coram’s Charter for Children
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Baroness Barran (Con)
I do not fully recognise the figures that the noble Baroness refers to. As she knows, we have been adjusting school funding to try to move towards a national funding formula. We have also invested increasingly in the pupil premium to support precisely the children whom she and the Government are most concerned about.
Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB)
My Lords, looking at the other end of childhood—teenagers—will the Government do something better about youth clubs, which might have some effect on gangs?
Baroness Barran (Con)
There are multiple things that will have effects on gangs, but clearly the engagement of young people is very important, as the noble and learned Baroness suggests. That is why we made the national youth guarantee commitments in 2022.