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| Clause 11, page 7, line 3, leave out ‘relevant Northern Ireland department intends’ |
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| | See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 34. |
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| Clause 11, page 7, line 7, leave out ‘relevant Northern Ireland department intends’ |
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| and insert ‘Northern Ireland departments intend’. |
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| | See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 34. |
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| Clause 11, page 7, line 12, leave out ‘relevant Northern Ireland department’ and |
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| insert ‘Northern Ireland departments’. |
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| | See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 34. |
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| Clause 11, page 7, line 19, at end insert— |
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| | ‘( ) | The relevant Northern Ireland department must, on or before each report date |
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| | relating to a Northern Ireland strategy, lay before the Northern Ireland Assembly |
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| | (a) | describes the measures taken by the Northern Ireland departments in |
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| | accordance with the Northern Ireland strategy, |
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| | (b) | describes the effect of those measures in contributing to the meeting of |
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| | the targets in sections 2 to 5, and |
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| | (c) | describes other effects of those measures that contribute to the |
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| | achievement of the purpose mentioned in subsection (2)(b). |
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| | ( ) | The report dates relating to a Northern Ireland strategy are each anniversary of the |
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| | day on which it was laid before the Northern Ireland Assembly, other than an |
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| | (a) | on or after the date on which a subsequent Northern Ireland strategy is so |
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| | (b) | after the end of the target year.’. |
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| | This amendment requires the relevant Northern Ireland department to lay before the Northern |
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| | Ireland Assembly an annual report describing how measures taken in accordance with the current |
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| | Northern Ireland strategy have contributed to meeting the targets and to ensuring that children in |
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| | Northern Ireland do not experience socio-economic disadvantage. |
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| Clause 13, page 8, line 3, leave out from beginning to ‘lay’ and insert ‘The |
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| Secretary of State must, on or before each report date relating to a UK strategy’. |
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| | This amendment (with amendments 41, 42, 43 and 45) clarifies the wording of clause 13. The |
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| | laying of each UK strategy triggers an obligation to lay annual reports on the implementation of |
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| | that strategy, until either the next strategy is laid or the end of the target year is reached. |
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| Clause 13, page 8, line 7, leave out ‘current’. |
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| | See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 40. |
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| Clause 13, page 8, line 8, leave out subsection (2) and insert— |
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| | ‘(2) | The report dates relating to a UK strategy are each anniversary of the day on |
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| | which it was laid before Parliament, other than an anniversary which falls— |
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| | (a) | on or after the date on which a subsequent UK strategy is so laid, or |
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| | (b) | after the end of the target year.’ |
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| | See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 40. |
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| Clause 13, page 8, line 15, leave out ‘most recent’. |
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| | See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 40. |
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| Clause 13, page 8, line 17, leave out ‘relevant Northern Ireland department’ and |
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| insert ‘Northern Ireland departments’. |
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| | See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 34. |
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| Clause 13, page 8, line 23, leave out ‘most recent’. |
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| | See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 40. |
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| Clause 14, page 9, line 2, at end insert— |
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| | ‘(2) | The report under section 13 (3) must include a statement on the numbers and the |
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| | percentage of children living with family and friends carers in qualifying |
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| | (a) | the percentage of these households that fell within the relevant income |
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| | group for the purpose of section 2; |
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| | (b) | the percentage who for the purposes of section 3 are living in households |
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| | that fell within the relevant income group and experiencing material |
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| | (c) | the percentage of these households that fell within the relevant income |
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| | group for the purposes of section 4; |
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| | (d) | the percentage of these households during the survey years (as defined by |
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| | section 5 (2)) which relate to the target year who have lived in households |
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| | that fell within the relevant income group for the purposes of section 5 in |
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| | at least 3 of the survey years.’. |
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| Clause 15, page 9, line 21, at end insert ‘including with regard to any statutory duty |
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| to reduce public borrowing’. |
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| | The Fiscal Responsibility Bill proposed in the Prime Minister’s Party Conference speech of 29 |
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| | September 2009 will impose a legally binding obligation on the Government to reduce public |
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| | borrowing. The amendment seeks clarification as to whether the Secretary of State, in preparing |
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| | a UK strategy, and the Commission, in considering advice, will need to take into account this |
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| Clause 15, page 9, line 24, leave out ‘them’ and insert ‘the Scottish Ministers or, as |
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| the case may be, to the Northern Ireland departments’. |
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| | The effect of this amendment is that, in relation to Northern Ireland, clause 15(3)(a) refers to the |
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| | Northern Ireland departments in general, rather than to the Office of the First Minister and Deputy |
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| | First Minister. See Member’s explanatory statement for amendment 34. |
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| Page 9, line 11, leave out Clause 15. |
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| Clause 17, page 9, line 33, at end insert— |
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| | ‘ “family and friends carer” means a person who is raising a child (who is |
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| | not living with his or her parents) and is related to the child or otherwise |
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| Clause 17, page 10, line 6, at end add ‘A “family and friends carer” means a person |
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| who is raising a child (who is not living with his parents) and is related to the child or |
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| otherwise connected to them.’. |
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| Clause 18, page 10, line 22, leave out from ‘England’ to end of Clause. |
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| Clause 19, page 10, leave out lines 38 and 39. |
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| Clause 19, page 11, line 3, at end add— |
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| | ‘(i) | a Mental Health Trust.’. |
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| Clause 20, page 11, line 45, leave out ‘each’ and insert ‘those’. |
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| Clause 20, page 11, line 45, after ‘authorities’, insert ‘as the authority thinks fit’. |
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| Clause 20, page 12, line 5, leave out subsection (4). |
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| Clause 21, page 12, line 26, after ‘assessment’, insert ‘including an assessment |
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| Clause 21, page 12, line 26, at end insert ‘including the number and needs of |
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| children living with family and friends carers;’. |
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| Clause 21, page 12, line 26, at end insert ‘including the number of, and needs of, |
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| children living with family and friends carers.’. |
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| | This aims to ensure that regulations setting out what local authority child poverty needs |
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| | assessment covers includes children who are being raised by family and friends carers. |
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| Clause 22, page 13, line 14, leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’. |
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| Clause 24, page 14, line 7, leave out from ‘of’ to ‘section’ in line 8. |
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| Clause 25, page 14, line 21, leave out ‘16’ and insert ‘18’. |
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| Clause 25, page 14, leave out lines 22 to 25. |
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| Clause 30, page 15, line 25, after ‘Child’, insert ‘and Family’. |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | The Secretary of State must, before the end of the period of three months |
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| | beginning with the day on which the Act is passed, publish and lay before |
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| | Parliament a report setting out an assessment of progress made towards meeting |
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| | (2) | The 2010 target is that in the financial year beginning with 1 April 2010, fewer |
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| | than 1.7 million children live in households that fall within the relevant income |
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| | group as defined by section 2(2).’. |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘The Secretary of State shall ensure that a household wholly dependent on tax |
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| | credits or social security benefits has an income at, or above, the relative low |
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| | income target in section 2 (the relative low income target).’. |
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| | The reductions in the causes of poverty targets |
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| To move the following Clause:— |
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| | ‘(1) | The Secretary of State shall make regulations setting out the causes of poverty |
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| | (2) | Such targets may include, but are not limited to: |
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| | (a) | low educational attainment and erratic school performance; |
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| | (b) | school leavers not in education, employment or training; |
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| | (c) | registrations on the Child Protection Plan; |
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| | (d) | teenage smoking and obesity; |
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| | (f) | children in homes with drug and alcohol addiction; |
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| | (g) | children growing up in jobless households; |
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| | (h) | serious personal debt.’. |
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| | ‘(1) | In the exercise of his duties, the Secretary of State shall have regard to minimum |
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| | (2) | It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to commission research into the |
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| | minimum levels of household incomes necessary to sustain a healthy diet, other |
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| | necessities, safety and wellbeing for children (in this Act referred to as |
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| | “Minimum Income Standards”).’. |
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| Title, line 1, after ‘child’, insert ‘and family’. |
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| Title, line 2, leave out ‘child’ and insert ‘parental’. |
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