Speeches by Paffey.

“The strong challenge you are talking about has certainly been the Secretary of State’s description of what you are bringing to the role. There will be strong challenge as well as support. How do you intend to ensure that you are providing that robust challenge to Ofsted’s leadership at a crucial time for the organisati…”

“It is very helpful to hear about the various bits of progress being made because your initial assessment of Ofsted’s response to Ruth Perry’s death was that it had been very much defensive and complacent rather than reflective and self-critical. If I am hearing you right, is it your assessment that things have sufficie…”

“On your very salient comment about moving to understand how this is perceived outside, and whether people who are at the other end of this process find it more human, that is what all of us hope for. Dame Christine, I will go on specifically to a couple of questions about your review. It is now well over two years sinc…”

“That will be monitored ongoing, and we might want to pick that up next time we come back. Thank you.”

“Are you satisfied that everything you have just described deals sufficiently with what came out of the reviews in the first place and ensures where there was the absence of a clear path to raise concerns during an inspection, there is now a sufficiently clear path?”

“Do you think that the moves towards independence might be some of the further work that you are talking about? Correct me if I am wrong, Dame Christine, but I am sure in your review you recognise the lack of clear independence or sufficient independence in the eyes of some was a problem. Do you both want to comment on …”

“Good morning. Sir Martyn, you have now set up a complaints’ hub within Ofsted, and you say the aim of that is to bring all of the complaints into one place. Could you tell us a bit more about the impact that that has had on the way that complaints are coming in and how they are handled?”

“I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement and her comments on digital inclusion. Will she say a bit more about how the inclusion strategy might address some of the challenges faced by care-experienced young people and care leavers? Will she guarantee that the priority will be bringing together and integrating the …”

“Yes. I was really after what is most effective.”

“Sorry, are you saying that those are policy interventions that you have made in this case in Northern Ireland that are not yet there in the UK?”

“Yes. I was really after what is most effective.”

“Good morning to the panel. I think it goes without saying that we talk about strategies, we talk about targets, but what we are after is not just moving money around, it is making a material difference so that children’s life chances are better. Could we dig into a bit more detail on what we know works? What has proven…”

“Sorry, are you saying that those are policy interventions that you have made in this case in Northern Ireland that are not yet there in the UK?”

“Good morning to the panel. I think it goes without saying that we talk about strategies, we talk about targets, but what we are after is not just moving money around, it is making a material difference so that children’s life chances are better. Could we dig into a bit more detail on what we know works? What has proven…”

“I thank the Minister for his statement. As schools and early years providers start the new term across Southampton this week, we have two new nurseries—at St Mary’s Church of England primary school and at Valentine primary school—which will add to that provision thanks to the investment of this Labour Government. That …”

“I thank my hon. Friend and near neighbour for making that point. Absolutely, boundary changes must be looked at sympathetically by Ministers. I hope to get that reassurance in their comments, because what we stand to gain in the short term from a quick and easy decision, we will lose in the long term if councils find t…”

“I really welcome this pivotal Bill. When I was deputy leader of Southampton city council, I saw at first hand how local decisions made by local people were transformative for the community, but I also saw over 14 long years of Conservative government how we were held back by a broken system that turned councils into su…”

“Do you think the alliance should be reinstated?”

“A previous incarnation of this Committee made a recommendation that local authority support from councils should be audited—particularly things like education welfare officers—and that any funding to meet the guidance on that should be ringfenced. In your view, does that recommendation remain valid?”

“You will have heard me ask this question of the last panel, so it will be no surprise. I am interested in your assessment of existing Government measures like the attendance hubs and attendance mentors. What impact do you believe they have had?”