Westminster Hall

3 septembre 2026

Presentation of the Joint Committee on Human Rights report on children’s social care, outlining inquiry scope, human rights concerns and legal reform proposals, followed by questioning on devolved responsibilities, care settings, advocacy and protected status for care‑experienced children.

Westminster Hall

15:42 - 16:17

Intervenant 1

Order, order. We begin with the select committee statement. Peter Swallow will speak on the publication of the second report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Human Rights of Children in the Social Care System in England, HC 161, for up to 10 minutes, during which no interventions may be taken.

At the conclusion of his statement, I will call members to put questions on the subject of the statement and call Peter Swallow to respond to these in turn. Questions should be brief and members may ask only one question each. I call Peter Swallow on behalf of the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

16:17 - 17:31

Intervenant 2

Thank you, Madam Chair, it's an honour to serve under you in the chair and can I start by thanking the Backbench Business Committee for granting this statement and to my fellow members of the Human Rights Committee for asking me to make it. I'm also very grateful to my honourable friend the Children's Minister for attending this statement, as he knows, I never miss an opportunity when I see him to raise the progress of my local SEND school, but I thought I'd get it in right at the start so I can focus on what we're actually here to talk about today, the very, very important matter of children's social care.

This statement sets out the work done and the recommendations made by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on children's human rights in the social care system in England. And it goes without saying that the state's ability to intervene into families to remove children where and only where it is deemed absolutely necessary for a child's welfare in the first instance is amongst the gravest and most serious of its responsibilities. But the responsibility the state then takes over that child and how they're cared for next is equally as serious and has the capacity to shape the rest of that child's life.

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