| Chair - Frank Dobson, Secretary of State for Health |
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| Department | Ministers |
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| Health | Paul Boateng |
| Welsh Office | Win Griffiths until July 1998 and then Jon Owen Jones |
| DETR | Hilary Armstrong |
| Cabinet Office | Peter Kilfoyle |
| Home Office | Alun Michael |
| DfEE | Estelle Morris |
| LCD | Geoff Hoon |
| Treasury | Alistair Darling until July 1998 and then Stephen Byers |
| Scottish Office | Sam Galbraith |
| Solicitor General | Lord Falconer of Thoroton until July 1998 and then Ross Cranston |
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| Advisers |
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| No. 10 Policy Unit | Robert Hill |
| Northern Ireland Office | Dr Kevin McCoy |
| Local Government Association | Denise Platt (from July 1998 as Chief Inspector of SSI for Department of Health |
| Voluntary sector | Deryk Mead - NCH Action for Children |
| Young person formerly in care | Marie Piper |
| Association of Directors of Social Services ACPO | Roy Taylor Butler - Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary |
| Youth Justice Task Force | Norman Warner |
| Social Exclusion Unit | Zena Peatfield |
| Education | Maureen Eade - HMI |
| Department of Health | Sir Herbert Laming until July 1998 Tom Luce |