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Have you managed to identify, through issues of best practice and the like, whether local authorities are managing that problem in the best possible way?
Can you give me any background on how the best estimates were reached? For the care and social work bodies, the best estimates tend to be the midpoint between the top and the bottom.
As far as I can see, that has not been costed and it is very likely to attract vexatious campaigners who do not have at heart the institution’s best interests. The amendment is one of the most problematic in the whole bill.
Best practice needs not only to be shared among community groups, but to be fed back to the wider public sector because all organisations need to learn from what works best.