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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Tuesday 16 April 2013

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s):

 

Children and Families Bill Committee 241-302

 

Public Bill Committee


 

Children and Families Bill

 

Information sharing about live births

 

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

 

Lisa Nandy

 

Andrea Leadsom

 

NC18

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

NHS trusts should make arrangements to share with local authorities records of

 

live births to parents resident in their area, to be used by the local authority for the

 

purposes of identifying and contacting new families through children’s centres

 

and any other early years outreach services it may operate.

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(2)    

The Secretary of State must, within a period of six months of Royal Assent to this

 

Act, bring forward regulations placing consequential requirements on trusts and

 

local authorities in exercising their duty under subsection (1), including, but not

 

limited to—

 

(a)    

the format of arrangements made;

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(b)    

the safeguarding of information;

 

(c)    

the circumstances in which it would not be appropriate for a trust to

 

provide information to local authorities;

 

(d)    

the regularity of data transfers;

 

(e)    

timescales within which a local authority must contact new families

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made known to it; and

 

(f)    

any further requirements the Secretary of State deems necessary.’.

 

As an Amendment to Mrs Sharon Hodgson’s proposed New Clause (Information

 

sharing about live births) (NC18):—


 
 

Notices of Amendments: 16 April 2013                  

304

 

Children and Families Bill, continued

 
 

Andrea Leadsom

 

(a)

 

Line  16,  at end add—

 

‘(3)    

Local authorities must establish a pilot scheme to trial the registration of births

 

within children’s centres, and evaluate the effectiveness of the scheme to—

 

(a)    

identify and contact new families; and

 

(b)    

enable children centres to reach more families, in particular those with

 

children under the age of two, or who the local authority consider—

 

(i)    

hard to reach, or

 

(ii)    

vulnerable.’.

 

Independent study: registration of births at children’s centres

 

Andrea Leadsom

 

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

 

NC56

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State shall commission an independent study of the likely

 

impact on the welfare of children of requiring births to be registered at children’s

 

centres.

 

(2)    

The Secretary of State may, by regulations, establish pilot schemes to trial the

 

registration of births within children’s centres, to inform the independent study

 

under sub-section (1).

 

(3)    

In this section “children centre” has the meaning given by section 5A(4)

 

(Arrangements for provision of children’s centres) of the Childcare Act 2006.’.

 


 
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