"Fearlessly in a way that tackles the core issues and does not water them down," said Helen Gittos, Chair of the Family Expert Reference Group for the National Maternity & Neonatal Taskforce.
Gittos warned that ongoing struggles at individual trusts indicate that current national support frameworks are failing.
"If improvement in an individual trust cannot be sustained even with intensive support from national teams it indicates that the support they are giving is not working," she said.
The Maternity Safety Alliance directly opposed the structural setup of the proposed oversight role. "Failed to address core issues at the centre of maternity failings," the group said.
They argued that the new commissioner position lacks proper independent authority to execute systemic changes.
"The recommendation for a maternity commissioner in the format proposed by Baroness Amos is fundamentally dangerous, concentrating power and responsibility in one pair of unaccountable hands," the group added.
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Following the report, the Department of Health and Social Care announced it will introduce a national action plan in December to implement the required upgrades.
