Louise Casey, Baroness Casey of Blackstock

system.

Look, I absolutely agree with you, and I agree with most of what Tom said, and I think Louise Casey actually said it, didn't she, a few weeks ago, at the launch of the, well, Andy Burnham talking about social care, she said, you know, at the moment, the system is so broken that, you know, she said, Louise Casey, I would qualify...

Yes, yes, for disability, that's right.

..for

But I think it is.

You know, it's really you know, Jonathan Hall, Casey, who's the independent review of terrorism, said that, you know, he was and he's not he doesn't have a dog in the fight.

You know, he's a he is an impartial observer.

He said he was worried that this would paint a target on the back of Jewish people.

You cite Rowan Williams and his plea for what he calls argumentative pluralism.

And that being a very difficult and sometimes inconvenient and painful place for society to exist, but much preferable to this polarisation and this weird dichotomy of pseudo-religious combat.

And what I thought was really nice of you to pick out Louise Casey as somebody who's fought against that.

He's a great, great, great person.

But we're in those absolutely crucial years of nought to five you may have come across the thousand and one critical days from birth pregnancy to three and what home start is about our family support charity is about supporting parents at this crucial moment in a child's life if you can get it as right as possible then that will travel along throughout their lives

the government have said that they're reviewing social care at the moment and dame louise casey has put an appeal out for ideas issues around children aren't there that need to be addressed

It's quite interesting what is emerging is some years ago, the previous Labour government, there was a fantastic initiative called the Sure Start Centres.

And I've been doing this job long enough to have worked alongside them in Petersfield.

That we, last year, out of the 32% of families that were with children's services that came to us, 27% of those 32 were moved off or up away from child children's services and child protection plans.

So on one level, you've got your proof there.

I think that needs to go into Dame Louise Casey's review, doesn't it? What's it like being responsible for keeping this organisation on its feet and doing the great work that you do?

I've done this job now, it's my 21st year, completely passionate about it and I never stop being passionate about it.

No. They're aiming to present the best possible case they can.

It's the defensiveness and denial that Baroness Louise Casey points out in her, you know, pretty much one of the watershed moments for policing in her report into the Metropolitan Police culture.

But she's talking about a senior culture that effectively says we have to preserve the reputation of this force and of policing because we rely on trust and consent.

God forbid anyone finds out that we're crap.

Because ignorance, ladies and gentlemen, doesn't protect children.

Now, Britain commissioned another major review under Baroness Louise Casey, and the Casey audit reached a conclusion that is almost unbelievable considering how long this argument has been going on.

The national data is still inadequate, particularly the ethnicity data.

The audit says ethnicity was not recorded for roughly two-thirds of perpetrators in some national data sets.

2028.

And they've been talking about it for how long? I mean, Baroness Casey is going to bring this consultation forward by a year because Andy told her to.

And absolutely, we've been talking about the crisis in the care sector.

Well, when did I come back to say? Well, certainly since 2012, I've been aware of the crisis.

Let's have a review.

Let's get Louise Casey to look at this-

Yeah

... and we will report back in a couple of years' time-

Them and two other forces still have to be made better.

And bear in mind, Louise Casey was brought in.

one of the inquiries, she was brought in not long after the Sarah Everard case to look at what's going on in the Met.

And of course, that's the famous one where she came out saying it was institutionally racist, homophobic.

Well, that's it from us.

You will see, as I said, the drama documentary BBC will be coming out in the next few weeks.

And also there'll be another inquiry report coming out on the back of Louise Casey's report to see whether the Met Police have improved on those failings that they were told they had to.

I mean, who would want to be the commissioner of the Met Police?

Of all the Firearms Command, it was the one that had that as its basis.

So, and I think you remember what Louise Casey called it in the Casey report.

She called it the, yeah, the dark corner of policing.

Well, I can understand-

Uh, no, it's still going on now.

It's terrible.

And, um, it was Baroness Louise Casey who, um, did a report on the Met following these two cases.

Uh, so let's dive into that next.