Question

To ask the Prime Minister, pursuant to the Oral Answer of 24 June 2015 to the hon. Member for Bury St Edmunds, Official Report, column 886, how the Child Protection Taskforce plans to engage with backbench and Opposition hon. Members; and if he will expand the membership of that body to include representatives from those groups.

The Child Protection Taskforce will drive forward fundamental reforms to protect the most vulnerable children in our society, focusing on transforming social work, children’s services practice and the accountability arrangements for child protection. The Taskforce will take careful account of the views of experts and leaders across children’s services, social work and the child protection profession, and will engage closely with elected representatives as this critical work progresses.