Members of Parliament will consider the Children and Social Work Bill for the first time on Monday December 5th. Controversial exemption clauses, which would have allowed individual councils to be excused from their children’s social care statutory duties, were deleted by Peers last month. Article 39 is one of 43 organisations who oppose the exemption … Read more
Peers have voted to remove Clause 29 from the Children and Social Work Bill. The Minister, Lord Nash, also indicated the Government would take out Clause 32. Article 39 has been campaigning since the Bill was introduced in May to have these exemption clauses removed. Clause 29 allows local councils to ask the Secretary of … Read more
Article 39 has delivered its final briefing to Peers, for this stage of debates on the Children and Social Work Bill. We have asked Peers to support amendments tabled by Lord Ramsbotham, Lord Watson, Lord Warner and Lord Low, which would remove Clauses 29-33 from the Bill. The amendments will be voted on tomorrow afternoon … Read more
Amendments have been tabled by Lord Ramsbotham, Lord Watson and Lord Warner to remove Clauses 29-33 from the Children and Social Work Bill. These Clauses allow individual councils to be excused from their legal duties towards vulnerable children and care leavers. Every children’s social care Act of Parliament since 1933 is affected. The vote is … Read more
Article 39 is one of 31 organisations opposing the exemption clauses in the Children and Social Work Bill, which will allow the removal of council’s statutory duties towards vulnerable children and care leavers area-by-area. More than 140 individual experts, including many parents and carers of disabled children, are also calling for the exemption clauses to … Read more