The UK government is not funding migrant detention centres in Libya. They are the responsibility of the Libyan authorities and we regularly raise with them the need to respect the human rights of migrants, to ensure the provision of basic services, and to explore alternatives to detention centres. UK Aid funds basic humanitarian provisions where it is possible to do so in detention centres whilst upholding humanitarian principles.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the British Embassy in Bahrain have raised the case of Hassan Musaima with the Bahraini authorities at senior levels. The Bahraini authorities have assured us that Mr Mushaima has access to his medication and medical facilities. We continue to encourage those with concerns to report them to the appropriate human rights oversight body. We also continue to encourage the oversight bodies to carry out swift and thorough investigations into any such claims.

The Government is committed to preventing and reducing the risk of harm to older adults in vulnerable situations regardless of the source of harm.

The Care Act (2014) placed adult safeguarding on a statutory footing for the first time and provided local authorities with the lead on responding to, and preventing, abuse and neglect. Supported by a new duty of cooperation by other relevant agencies, set out in the Act, it has been made clear that safeguarding is everyone’s business. The statutory guidance to the Act sets out an expectation that local authorities ensure that the services they commission are safe, effective and of high quality. It also makes clear that those providing the service, local authorities and the Care Quality Commission take swift action where anyone alleges poor care, neglect or abuse.

Behaviour which amounts to abuse and neglect often constitutes specific criminal offences. Although the local authority has the lead role in making enquiries, where criminal activity is suspected, then the early involvement of the police is likely to be appropriate in many cases, and that is what we would want to see.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) collects national level data on older adult safeguarding and reports annually. The Safeguarding Adults Collection (formally the Safeguarding Adults Return) presents information about adults at risk for whom safeguarding referrals were opened during the reporting period, and case details for safeguarding referrals which concluded during the reporting period. A safeguarding referral is where a concern is raised with a council about a risk of abuse, which instigates an enquiry under the local safeguarding procedures. The data collection captures the source of harm including where this comes from social care support. Further details regarding the collection can be found on the HSCIC website at:

http://www.hscic.gov.uk/socialcarecollections2016

Local authorities will collect a range of safeguarding intelligence which the Department has not been prescriptive in setting out. However, the Government has made it clear in statutory guidance to support implementation of the Care Act (2014) that Safeguarding Adults Boards (SABs) must establish ways of analysing and interrogating data on safeguarding notifications that increase the SABs understanding of prevalence of abuse and neglect locally and that builds up a picture over time. Local authorities, the NHS and the Police are all core statutory partners on SABs.

This Government is committed to delivering the vision set out in Future in Mind and is driving forward the transformation of children and young people’s mental health services to improve access and make services more widely available across the country so that, where possible, children can access high-quality support locally.

This transformation programme, backed by additional investment of £1.25 billion and an extra £150 million to improve eating disorders, allocated over the next five years, will deliver a step change in the way children and young people’s mental health services are commissioned and delivered.

All clinical commissioning groups, working closely with their partners, were asked to develop and submit Local Transformation Plans (LTPs) to transform their local offer for children and young people’s mental health. Plans must cover the whole spectrum of services from prevention to intervention for emerging or existing mental health problems and address the full spectrum of need, including children who have been abused and/or exploited. LTPs should also demonstrate that services have been designed with children and young people and their families, and meet the needs of their local population of children.

LTPs covering all local areas were submitted in October 2015 and are currently being assured by NHS England’s regional teams.

This Government is committed to delivering the vision set out in Future in mind and is driving forward the transformation of children and young people’s mental health services.

As a first step in delivering this transformation and in line with guidance published by NHS England in August, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have produced Local Transformation Plans (LTPs) for children and young people’s mental health with their local partners as proposed in Future in mind. These include plans which set out how CCGs will ensure that the needs of vulnerable groups, including children who have been abused, are met. LTPs covering all local areas have been submitted and are now being assured by NHS England’s regional teams.

Strategic Clinical Networks provide clinical advice and leadership to support decision making and strategic planning at a local level. The networks were established to bring together those who use, provide and commission the service to make improvements in outcomes for complex patient pathways using an integrated, whole system approach such as for children who have been abused. The networks work in partnership with commissioners (including local government), supporting their decision making and strategic planning, by working across the boundaries of commissioner, provider and voluntary organisations as a vehicle for improvement.

NHS England is scoping a further programme of commissioning support to build on what is already being delivered locally.

The independent Commission of Inquiry (COI), mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate alleged violations of human rights in Syria, reported on 22 February 2012 that more than 500 children had been killed by the Syrian regime since the unrest began in March 2011, many being targeted by snipers. In their subsequent report of 26 June 2012 the Commission found that the victims of the atrocity in al Houla were predominantly women and children. The Commission has also reported that children continued to be arbitrarily arrested and tortured while in detention, including boys as young as 10 years of age.

We call on the Syrian regime to immediately cease the widespread human rights violations committed by Government forces and paramilitary forces. These include arbitrary arrest and detention, violations of children's rights and use of sexual violence.

Also criticised in the report are anti-Government armed groups that are using children as ancillary staff in field units and hospitals. We are concerned by these increasing accounts of human rights abuses being committed by the armed opposition. These are unacceptable and we call on them to stop.