Children and Families Bill

I think that we will make a start. I had just put the question, the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne,...

Although perhaps I did not make it clear when I was speaking, it is in a way obvious that my two ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, for tabling this exciting amend...

I, too, lend my support to the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, and will link what I am going to say...

My Lords, I rise briefly to underline the important point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Massey...

My Lords, I, too, support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Northbourne, and I congratu...

My Lords, I support this amendment. There is something close to my heart that noble Lord also sup...

I rise very briefly to support this amendment, and to ask for it to be looked at in a broader con...

My Lords, for the reasons already given, which I will not repeat, I, too, support this amendment....

My Lords, I was intending to support Amendment 57 when we spoke earlier on Amendment 56. However,...

My Lords, I again thank all contributors to this debate. As the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, said, ...

I am sorry to interrupt but is the Minister aware that the recent Ofsted report on personal, soci...

Yes, I am aware of that. Our PSHE review concluded in March 2013 and found that the existing guid...

I am most grateful to the Minister and his advisers for all that information, particularly becaus...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

58: Clause 12, page 10, leave out lines 40 to 4...

My Lords, on a slightly different subject, Amendments 58 and 59 deal with child arrangements orde...

My Lords, I entirely support what lies behind what the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, has said. Amen...

If there is anything likely to chill the marrow of a non-lawyer Minister, it is the noble and lea...

I do not believe that I have the right now to withdraw my amendment because it was grouped with t...

I have to say I was beginning to feel very disappointed in the Minister’s response until he said ...

Moved by

Lord McNally

61: Schedule 2, page 141, line 43, at end insert—

“Legal ...

I apologise for asking for this clause stand part debate quite late in the day, without giving no...

I beg the noble Earl’s pardon for interrupting, but the Division bell is ringing. The Committee w...

My Lords, the conclusions arising from the important research of Dr Julia Brophy are:

“(a) ...

Since this issue has been raised, I am going to jump on the bandwagon just to say that very diffi...

My Lords, it is terribly important that this debate is kept in perspective. The noble and learned...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Tyler, and the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, ...

My Lords, perhaps I should make it clear from the start to the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, that we...

My Lords, I am most grateful to all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate. I am most gr...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

62: Clause 14, page 13, line 15, after “issued”...

My Lords, Amendments 62 and 63 concern the issue of time limits for court proceedings. We very mu...

My Lords, I have put my name down to this amendment because the NSPCC has raised huge concerns wi...

My Lords, I regret to say to the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, that I do not agree with her amendme...

I understand the intention behind the amendment, particularly in terms of promoting the best inte...

My Lords, I am not briefed by the NSPCC but I have a brief from the Magistrates’ Association, whi...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, for her interventio...

My Lords, I briefly pay tribute to the Government. In the past week I met District Judge Crichton...

My Lords, I welcome the support of the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin. I do not want anyone to be ...

The noble Baroness was asking about how the extensions would work in practice. The request to ext...

I am not sure that the Minister has shed much light on things. I am now even more confused. Surel...

Moved by

Lord Lloyd of Berwick

64: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, this amendment is concerned with the standard of proof in care proceedings. I am consci...

My Lords, I said that the two questions posed by Section 31 should be capable of being answered w...

My Lords, I support the amendment as strongly as I may. The critical consideration to keep in min...

My Lords, as an amateur and a non-lawyer, I hope that the Government will be able to accept the n...

My Lords, I want to make just a couple of remarks. First, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lor...

My Lords, I am not a practising lawyer either but I was a social worker of long standing. I want ...

My Lords, I am extremely sad to have to disagree with the noble and learned Lord, Lord Lloyd. I a...

It is not being suggested that the children should be taken away. The suggestion is whether we ar...

I have to say that in my experience as a family judge, speaking perhaps as the only family judge ...

My Lords, at the risk of lowering the tone of this extraordinarily learned exchange, in the churc...

My Lords, I had the responsibility of producing Clause 31 as it was, now Section 31, of the 1989 ...

Neither the noble and learned Lord nor I were Family Division judges, but another Family Division...

The noble and learned Baroness, Lady Hale, made it perfectly plain that the case that was set up ...

My Lords, I was not going to speak to this amendment. I have followed the debate with great inter...

My Lords, perhaps I may follow my noble friend Lord Storey because he encapsulates a lot of why t...

My Lords, the Minister has indicated that this matter will come back on Report, so I do not inten...