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Lord Hunt rallying call

Published 08/06/2007

Lord Hunt, president, Case Management Society, challenged delegates to work in co-operation to force the government to “stop treating rehabilitation as a Cinderella service”.

Speaking about the ongoing consultation from the Ministry of Justice (formerly Department of Constitutional Affairs), which includes rehabilitation, he said: “Don’t leave it to others. Let me tell you something, when the Association of British Insurers responds on behalf of 50 companies, it is treated as one response.

“I know of one occasion where an MP explained that 86% of respondents were in favour of one policy. Well, that was in fact 86 individual organisations, which could have been represented by three collective responses.

“As with all these consultation papers, if the individuals all put in separate responses as well as a collective one, it gives politicians a stronger base when they are arguing a case”.

He described the current debate as “an historic opportunity to put the injured party at the heart of the process, and we might not see another one for another generation,” noting how the issue had long been jealously guarded by certain departments in the past.

Earlier, Lord Hunt said that, in order to revitalise the political debate, everyone had to be “clearer in our minds and rhetoric what we mean by rehabilitation, so it can be understood by an intelligent lay person.

“It can be mental and psychological, as well as physical.”

This article has been reprinted with permission of the Claims Standards Council

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