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Children and Families Bill

Proceeding contribution from Tim Loughton (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 25 February 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills on Children and Families Bill.

I strongly support the case that the hon. Lady is making, but that applies to older children as well, who are deterred from coming forward with

their evidence on the basis that they will be re-traumatised in child sexual exploitation cases, of which there are some notorious ones currently under way. We need to make the system far more child-friendly to enable those children to make their statements that can nail the perpetrators in court, and not make them go through those traumatic events all over again in front of multiple barristers, as can so often be the case. I strongly support the point that the hon. Lady is making.

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Reference

559 c80 

Session

2012-13

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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