Debate contribution: Social Workers: Safeguarding, Early Intervention and Family Support
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 29 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Social Workers: Safeguarding, Early Intervention and Family Support
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5644869
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Text
There will be a considerable amount of work over the remainder of the mandate. We have the adult safeguarding Bill, which was paused to allow us to absorb the recommendations — as it turned out, the 106 recommendations — from the Muckamore Abbey Hospital report. I also made a commitment to a statutory duty of candour for organisations. Westminster is passing the Public Office (Accountability) Bill, commonly known as the "Hillsborough law". It places a statutory responsibility on organisations and officials, and it makes misleading the public a criminal offence. A lot of work is going on on patient and service-user safety. I assure the Member that, when I meet the leaders of the HSC tomorrow, I will make it absolutely explicit that, while there are huge pressures on balancing budgets and transforming shift left, for the remainder of my time as Minister the number-one priority will be patient safety.
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