The Children Bill, which will be debated again in the Lords next week, bars the commissioner from investigating individual cases without the permission of the education secretary.
But children's minister Margaret Hodge, appearing in front of the Commons education select committee last week, revealed that the Government was planning to bring forward an amendment to the Bill to allow the commissioner to carry out investigations into cases without the education secretary's permission should they demonstrate "systematic failures of national importance".
The Government will table another amendment to make it absolutely clear that the commissioner will be able to carry out general inquiries, such as into child obesity or young people in the media, without the minister's permission.
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