Public Services Committee
Children in crisis: the role of public services in overcoming child vulnerability
1st Report of Session 2021-22 - published 19 November 2021 - HL Paper 95
Contents
Figure 1: When should early intervention services work with vulnerable children and their families?
Impact of poverty on child vulnerability and demand for public services
Impact of COVID-19 on child vulnerability
Our key principles for public services reform
Reviews on schools, safeguarding, early years and social care
Chapter 2: National-level barriers to early intervention and integration of services
Long-term costs of underinvestment in early intervention
Early intervention support for older children
Early intervention and ‘levelling-up’: support for deprived communities
No national strategy on vulnerable children: consequences at local level
Chapter 3: Local-level barriers to early intervention and integration of services
Criminal and sexual exploitation and involvement in violent crime
Reducing school exclusions, absences and NEETs
Supporting local areas to integrate and improve early intervention provision
Chapter 4: Regulation, inspections and accountability
National regulation and local accountability
Joint working between regulators and inspectorates
Chapter 5: Barriers to sharing data on vulnerable children
NHS: “weak link” in data-sharing arrangements
Data-sharing problems in wider public sector
Chapter 7: Local voluntary sector
Role of local civil society and innovation in voluntary sector
Chapter 8: Role of Family Hubs in addressing child vulnerability
How Family Hubs help vulnerable children and their families
Role of Family Hubs in providing early intervention support from 0–19
National roll-out of Family Hubs
Prioritising local areas of highest need
Family Hubs: fundamental characteristics
Summary of conclusions and recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest
Appendix 4: Note of Committee visit to Bessborough Family Hub, London SW1 on 16 September 2021
Evidence is published online at https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1049/the-role-of-public-services-in-addressing-child-vulnerability/publications/ and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.