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It is a fabulous opportunity to bring people together and perhaps capitalise on some of the best practice and good approaches in order to potentially develop a model for the public sector.
Do you have any thoughts on how to keep standing legislation up to date with best practice? That is difficult, because it often requires legislative time.
Whether to extend the powers beyond the health service is a matter for policy makers. We will do our best to deliver a good service whatever the scope of the powers.
In section 22, we seek to balance the best interests of victims, including child victims, and the best interests of the child responsible for the harm, who remains the focus of the referral to the children’s hearings system.