The MPs on the Education and Skills Select Committee held a one-offsession on children's services last week and revealed it will now repeatthe exercise at least twice a year.
The scrutiny from the committee, which has the power to call educationsecretary Ruth Kelly and other ministers for questioning, will put heavypressure on the Government to demonstrate that its reforms areworking.
Labour MP Barry Sheerman, the committee's chair, said: "We take ourresponsibilities on Every Child Matters very seriously.
This is a heavy new responsibility for the committee and whether we dothis on our own or share that responsibility with other selectcommittees is something that we started discussing before the election.As a holding measure we have decided to have a session on Every ChildMatters every six months as a minimum. In the autumn we will be talkingto the two responsible ministers about this."
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