Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Damian Hinds and Bill Esterson

Monday 25th June 2018 Commons Chamber

[Damian Hinds]

The hon. Lady is right to identify the importance of funding and resourcing for children’s social work. The spend on the most vulnerable children has been going up. There are some 35,000 child and family social workers and that number has increased a little between 2016 and 2017.

[Bill Esterson (Sefton Central) (Lab)]

4. If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of the recommendations for his Department in the Family Rights Group report, “Care Crisis Review: Options for Change”, published in June 2018; and what discussions he has had with Cabinet colleagues on that report.