Peers to question Government Ministers on the Children and Families Act 2014
The Committee will ask Ministers and officials from the DfE, MOJ and BEIS on the implementation of the Act
Meeting details
At 3:00pm: Private discussion
Inquiry
Children and Families Act 2014
At 3:15pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
Children and Families Act 2014
Minister of State (Minister for Schools and Childhood) at Department for Education
Director for Children’s Social Care at Department for Education
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Ministry of Justice
Deputy Director for Family Justice at Ministry of Justice
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Director, Labour Markets at Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
At 4:45pm: Private discussion
Inquiry
Children and Families Act 2014
Likely question topics include:
- Implementing and measuring the impact of the Act
- The current system for post adoption contact
- Challenges to completing public family law cases quickly
- Impacts of legal aid cuts on family law
- Support for kinship carers
- The fall in adoption figures
- Wait times for minority ethnicity prospective adopters
- Shared parental leave and shared parental pay