Children and Social Work Bill [Lords]

I shall deal first with new clauses 15 and 16, which relate to relationships and sex education an...

I warmly welcome these vital and long overdue new clauses, but it would be helpful if the Ministe...

I can reassure the hon. Lady that the whole purpose of bringing relationships education into prim...

Will the Minister give way?

I will, but I should make it clear to Members that I do not want to curtail the opportunities for...

The Minister will remember what we discussed in those happy days when we served together on the E...

We served on that Committee such a while ago that it was then called the Children, Schools and Fa...

Will the Minister include the Church of England in his list of organisations that support the Gov...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that clear indication of the Church of England’s suppor...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will give way briefly, but then I want to try to make some progress.

New clause 15 draws a distinction between relationships education provided for primary school chi...

A clear distinction is drawn by the very name of each of those subjects. The new clause makes pla...

rose—

I will give way to my hon. Friend, but then I must make some more progress.

I congratulate my hon. Friend and the Secretary of State on new clause 15, which is long overdue,...

The education will become a statutory part of the curriculum, so schools will have to provide it....

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will, but I shall then impose a moratorium on any further interventions.

Who will decide what is age-appropriate, and where is there any reference in any of these provisi...

The moral aspect is already covered by British values and the teaching of citizenship, and that i...

Given that 45% of primary school children have experienced, or are aware of, homophobic bullying,...

I have indicated that we expect bullying to be covered in primary school, and of course we have t...

I am yet another Select Committee Chair who very much welcomes this development and the courage w...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s indication as a Select Committee Chair that he joins the club ...

The Minister is making a strong case, but is he not asking us to enter into an incongruous positi...

What I am asking the House to do is support these new clauses that maintain the right to withdraw...

The Minister is making a powerful case. On that specific point, it is necessary to record not onl...

My hon. Friend makes a good point, and we have worked hard to try to improve how we manage, under...

It has occurred to me as the Minister has been talking that we already have 3,000 or so unaccompa...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. He touches on a key part of how we can improve the syst...

It is welcome that the Minister will publish information on each local authority. Will he publish...

The Home Secretary has set out the Government’s position in relation to the Dubs scheme. What we ...

Building on the question from the right hon. Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yve...

We have made it clear how, through the national transfer scheme, we want to ensure that we help t...

Would the Minister accept that many local authorities in Wales are anxious to play their part in ...

My understanding is that Wales took part in the consultation and, as I said a few moments ago, I ...

I welcome what the Minister is saying, but I am struggling to find anything in it that is inconsi...

The hon. Gentleman is going to have to be more specific about what his objection is. I would be h...

I have never seen the House so crowded to discuss amendments, which shows the importance that we ...

I am happy to commit to meet the right hon. Gentleman to see what we can do on that.

I appreciate the Minister’s comments on new clause 7, which has cross-party support. There is wel...

I can give my hon. Friend that reassurance. We want to ensure that every care leaver, whatever th...

Before I call the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne (Angela Rayner), I will point out what is dem...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. Let me reiterate that point and say how disappointing it is that the Gover...

I am sorry to have to rise again, Mr Speaker, but I should point out that the programme motion wa...

I thank the Minister for that point, but there was dialogue about that before we came to the Hous...

Does the hon. Lady agree that, on the question of the right contained in new clause 15 for parent...

I take on board the hon. Lady’s point. There has to be balance, and there has been considerable m...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

The hon. Gentleman had loads of time to seek to intervene when the Minister was speaking.

W...

I rise to speak to new clause 14, which is in my name. My interest in the Bill is born out of the...

My hon. Friend mentions my local authority, Gloucestershire, which I am pleased has been able to ...

That is the strength of a decent consultation. I and many of us in this House believe that we can...

I declare my interest. My hon. Friend knows that I put my name to the amendment and that I suppor...

Absolutely, and not least because of the refugee crisis. This is good housekeeping. It is good fo...

Does my hon. Friend agree that local authorities are already reviewing capacity on a week-by-week...

I do, absolutely. For me, this debate is born out of the fact that some local authorities have st...

What the Minister said from the Dispatch Box did not seem too far away from what new clause 14 is...

Absolutely. The fact that not only Members of this House but individuals such as the Independent ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that capacity is constantly changing? In supporting the intention of th...

Absolutely. I am so grateful for all the interventions, but I shall try to wrap up my speech.

I welcome the Government’s measures on compulsory sex and relationship education, and pay tribute...

The right hon. Lady is leaping to a potential solution, but without thinking through the Governme...

I understand the point that the right hon. Gentleman makes, but his view is rather different from...

I am listening carefully to the right hon. Lady. On that particular point, can she absolutely ass...

The hon. Gentleman makes a really important point. He and I have both raised the need to ensure t...

In an immigration debate last year, I asked the right hon. Lady about the capacity of local autho...

No, I am saying the opposite—that we have to do both. Kent does need support from all over the co...

My hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr Burrowes) and I decided to withdraw new clau...

I am sure that almost all of us agree that sex education in secondary schools is a good thing, pa...

I urge my right hon. Friend to talk to some of the teachers in his constituency who are already t...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Will my hon. Friend forgive me if I make just a bit more progress? I do not want to fall foul of ...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

Will my hon. Friend forgive me if I do not? I can see that I am getting into trouble with the Spe...

I would like to accommodate more colleagues, so extreme brevity would be hugely helpful.

In the light of your request for brevity, Mr Speaker, let me be clear that there is a common thre...

We will hear from a few more contributors, I hope. I call Sir Edward Leigh.

I shall speak to my amendment (a) to new clause 15, which would give all parents a chance to with...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I must finish. If we respect the rights of parents over sex education, why trample all over their...

The hon. Gentleman concluded his speech with commendable succinctness, which allows me to call An...

I rise to speak on amendment 12, which is in my name. It seeks to ensure that the proposed child ...

Order. Before I call the hon. Member for North Dorset (Simon Hoare), I emphasise that I would lik...

I rise to speak in warm support of new clause 15 and to congratulate the Government. The Minister...

I wish to speak to the amendments in my name to new clauses 13 and 14. Let me say in passing that...

I rise to support many of the proposals, not least those in my name, which the Minister has suppo...

We are making commendable progress—even greater progress, if that is imaginable, than I had antic...

Consideration completed. I will now suspend the House for no more than five minutes to make a dec...

I can now inform the House of my decision about certification. For the purposes of Standing Order...

indicated assent.

The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...

I remind hon. Members that if there are Divisions, only Members representing constituencies in En...

Just a very short intervention, but I always think it is very useful for the Minister to have the...

I hear what the hon. Lady says. Of course we are all looking very carefully at the situation in N...

I was loth to speak in this debate, although I think that I am the main contributor to Legislativ...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

This Bill is fundamentally about i...

I echo the thanks given by the Minister, particularly to my hon. Friend the Member for South Shie...

I voted in support of new clause 14. I should like to say again on behalf of the people of Northe...

I thank the hon. Lady for reminding us of the great contribution that Northern Ireland makes to t...

The Bill is groundbreaking in making sex and relationship education compulsory. The Government ha...

I congratulate everyone involved in the Bill’s progress. It is fair to say that I have come to it...

I come in at the end of the Bill’s progress, having been in at the beginning on Second Reading, b...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton). I very ...

Order. The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct: on Third Reading, he is perfectly entitled to de...

That is exactly what I am attempting to do, Madam Deputy Speaker; Government new clause 17 is in ...

It is a pleasure to speak after my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Lou...

I very much support the ambitions of this Bill. As we have all seen, there have been a number of ...

I can offer my hon. Friend that reassurance. The care plan outcomes of every child who is in care...

I thank the Minister.

Question put and agreed to.

Bill accordingly read the Third tim...