YES: David Hawker, director of children's services, Brighton and Hove City Council
The new inspectorate needs to be balanced in the sense that it needs to have high-level social care expertise as well as educational expertise, and it needs to have enough people from a social care background in it to ensure that the system stays safe. I am confident that this will be the case. I know that David Bell is very sincere in wanting to do a good job and I don't believe that he will in any way want to skimp on it.
NO: Tony Hunter, president, Association of Directors of Social Services
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