Children and Families Bill

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 217. I am grateful to the authors of Amendment 127, whi...

My Lords, I have put my name to the two excellently researched amendments of the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, before I speak to Amendment 127, I should say that I support the amendments tabled by t...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendments of my noble friend Lady Brinton, and would have added...

My Lords, the amendments in this group are particularly important, with respect to one group of c...

My Lords, very briefly, having visited a Red Balloon school, having had the privilege of being in...

My Lords, I add my support to the amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton, and my n...

My Lords, briefly, I want to clear up a misconception that both noble Baronesses, Lady Walmsley a...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 74, 127 and 217 regarding severely bullied children and the...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for his reply and for making clear the standards reg...

I am very happy to do that. I am fully aware that it is obviously not appropriate for a bullied c...

My Lords, perhaps the Minister could speak a little further about what I mentioned at the beginni...

I could not agree more with the noble Baroness’s point: habits formed early or seen in the home l...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his response. Perhaps I could briefly take each ...

If I may clarify one point, I was talking about 33 new AP providers being approved under the free...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

75: After Clause 21, insert the following new C...

I am covering for my colleague here, so I am doing a double act.

Amendment 75 proposes a ne...

I rise to support this amendment, and to speak to Amendments 79, 108, 116, 128 and 238. I am glad...

My Lords, my concern in this whole topic is that I make a fair estimate that a lot of childminder...

My Lords, I very much agree. On the one hand, it is hugely important that there is early identifi...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, and the noble Baroness in their amendments. ...

I just say to the noble Baroness and the noble Lord, Lord Storey, that I was referring to the ass...

My Lords, this debate has covered the important issue of SEN in early years settings, and noble L...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I think that we all share the c...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness. Of course, these proposals build on what the previous...

I was picking up the particular point about qualifications. As the Minister has already identifie...

Moved by

Lord Patel

81: After Clause 23, insert the following new Clause—

“Suit...

My Lords, this amendment would add a new clause after Clause 23. It refers to Section 19 of the E...

My Lords, I shall speak to my amendments; there is rather a long list of them. They are Amendment...

My Lords, I support Amendment 81 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Patel. I believe that it chimes w...

I, too, support the two amendments in the names of the noble Lord, Lord Patel, and the noble Coun...

Perhaps I can point the noble Baroness to my Amendment 218, which has a definition of blended lea...

My Lords, I support the amendments. When I first received the briefing about blended learning, I ...

My Lords, I agree with every word that the noble Countess, Lady Mar, has said. There are beginnin...

My Lords, noble Lords who have spoken on this issue have eloquently highlighted the significant b...

My Lords, I meant to do this in my initial speech: I thank the Minister and his department for th...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his comments, particularly the last ones that he made about wo...

Moved by

Baroness Sharp of Guildford

86: Clause 25, page 20, line 36, at end insert—<...

My Lords, Clause 25 is about promoting integration. My amendment is about effecting that integrat...

My Lords, we have two amendments in this group, Amendments 88 and 90B, so I shall speak to them. ...

To recap, I was talking about the support that was given to the families of children with special...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 100. Its purpose is to provide encouragement to local aut...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendments, 89 and 92 to 97, and add my support to Amendment 100, m...

My Lords, this group of amendments relates to Clauses 25 and 26, which deal with promoting integr...

I have not spoken in this debate but I should like to ask the noble Baroness a question. The thin...

I hear what the noble Baroness says, and she speaks from a great deal of experience. That is the ...

My Lords, I am sorry to intervene but the point of raising my concern is that, in many areas, spe...

The noble Lord made a very cogent case before and my noble friend was sympathetic to what he said...

Earlier the Minister made the point that we do not want lots of detail in the Bill and I think th...

I was actually thinking more of my noble friend’s amendment. My noble friend Lady Sharp is always...

I thank my noble friend for her answer. I do not think that any of us who have spoken take issue ...

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

98A: Clause 27, page 22, line 12, at end insert—

“...

My Lords, the Support and Aspiration Green Paper, published in 2011, contained the aspiration tha...

My Lords, I add my support to the noble Lord, Lord Low, in Amendment 98A, to which I have added m...

My Lords, I support Amendment 98A moved by the noble Lord, Lord Low, and I echo his comments that...

My Lords, I find the speeches of the noble Baroness, Lady Wilkins, a breath of fresh air. Often, ...

My Lords, I am happy to support the amendment of my noble friend Lord Low to strengthen the accou...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Low, and the comments that the noble Ba...

My Lords, I was horrified to be pointed to the report by the Children’s Commissioner, Always Some...

My Lords, we appreciate the concerns that have prompted the amendments in this group and noble Lo...

May I just ask a question about the funding? Much as local authorities do not like ring-fencing, ...

The issue of exactly how to make this as effective as possible is under discussion at the moment,...

To return to the question of funding, the Government have said a number of times that they are pr...

I hear what the noble Baroness says. She is a doughty champion in this area. The best thing is if...

I wonder if the Minister would meet with the organisations concerned, which would be far more hel...

Being a very low-level Minister, I am not sure how useful that would be for her group. However, I...

I welcome that. I thank the Minister.

My Lords, it seems clear that this amendment has touched a nerve. People have spoken with real pa...