In July, children's minister Margaret Hodge indicated she would reverse amendments that would allow the English children's commissioner to investigate individual cases, saying that existing mechanisms for dealing with individual complaints were adequate (Children Now, 21-27 July).
Speaking during a House of Commons debate last week, health minister Stephen Ladyman confirmed that the Government would table amendments during the committee stage of the Bill to reverse the changes.
"We believe the commissioner's role should be a strategic one. He should have the opportunity to investigate issues widely and we do not want him to become bogged down in individual cases, as other commissioners sometimes have," he said.
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