Children and Families Bill

My Lords, the noble Lord’s amendments prompt me to ask a question. We know that care leavers have...

My Lords, I declare an interest as my sister is a BSL interpreter at a university in the UK and I...

My Lords, about a fortnight ago I forwarded to the Minister an e-mail I had from a young man who ...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 155 in my name. Clause 38(3) sets out the types of institution tha...

My Lords, I have added my name to that of the noble Lord, Lord Low of Dalston, on Amendment 155 a...

Sometimes higher education provides better support than further education. I must declare that I ...

My Lords, we have had a briefing from Universities UK on this subject, which I suspect was compil...

We all want the same thing, and on Report I shall be interested to hear what the Minister has to ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for this stimulating and important debate, and I thank my noble fri...

I was very pleased to hear the Minister’s response about the revised code of practice. I just won...

My noble friend highlights a very important problem that we keep coming back to. It is one thing ...

I welcome what the Minister said about the Government’s care-leaver strategy. I have been followi...

I thank the noble Earl for his comments—and for his thanks to me. Again, we are all very concerne...

My Lords, I am sorry but I missed a little of what the noble Baroness said in response to me. Was...

Yes. As I listened to the noble Lord, it struck me that some of the concerns he had would be addr...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. The noble Lord, Lord Wigley, and I work quite closely on the...

I am sorry—I meant the noble Lord, Lord Touhig.

My Lords, what my noble friend said about that is very encouraging but it is not always a pre-exi...

I am sorry I did not address the points from my noble friend Lord Lucas, who wished to “keep me c...

I thank the Minister for her reassurance. As she and my noble friend Lady Brinton will be glad to...

For safety, if nothing else.

Indeed. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

101: Clause 30, page 24, line 31, leave out “it expects ...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 102 in my name. These amendments would specify that loc...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 104, which returns to the issue of funding. The amendment wo...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Wilkins. At the end of the last debate that we had o...

My Lords, I support the comments that have been made by previous speakers. I shall add a brief co...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 110, which is in my name. It ties in with other amendments t...

My Lords, I would like to raise two small points. The first relates to page 24, lines 37 and 38, ...

My Lords, first, I make a general point. The notion or the policy of a local offer is hugely impo...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Low, for introducing his amendments, to which we ...

My Lords, before I respond to the amendments in this group, I should like to say a few words abou...

My Lords, I am grateful to all those who have spoken and to the Minister for his comprehensive re...

Moved by

Lord Lucas

101A: Clause 30, page 24, line 32, after “children” insert “for w...

My Lords, I shall also speak to the other amendments in this group. I apologise to the Committee ...

My Lords, I will speak to this group of amendments on home education tabled by my noble friend Lo...

My Lords, I listened to the Minister’s response with particular interest as my sister home educat...

I think I can assure the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, that local authorities will be able to includ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend for that reply. I will read it with care but I ca...

Moved by

Baroness Hughes of Stretford

103: Clause 30, page 24, line 36, at end insert...

My Lords, the amendments in this group each refer to a particular aspect of the local offer propo...

My Lords, we have heard a lot about the local offer and I suspect that we will hear a lot more. T...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Sharp is not able to be in her place at the moment so, in her abse...

I shall speak to my Amendment 108A. I should probably declare again the interests I have already ...

I shall speak to Amendment 106, to which I have added my name because of the word “monitors”, whi...

I very much hope that I am not wasting the time of the Committee but I need to seek some guidance...

My Lords, I should like to say a few words about Amendment 109. I welcome Clause 30(3) because it...

My Lords, the amendments in this group seek in different ways to put more detailed information in...

Perhaps I may clarify for the noble Baroness that I acknowledge that there is a reference to the ...

Indeed. We agree that such provision plays a valuable role in supporting children and young peopl...

I thank my noble friend for that offer. However, before we do that, will she consider how the who...

I am very happy for us to look right across the board. We need to focus on the individual child o...

Perhaps I should explain to the Minister that there has indeed been a reply from the noble Lord, ...

I will refer that to the department for it to look at further. The department will know, as do I,...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her comprehensive response to the various and important points...

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

111: Clause 30, page 25, line 11, at end insert—

“...

My Lords, the amendment is in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham. I shall speak ...

My Lords, I take up the offer made by my noble friend Lord Low to say a little a bit about the qu...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 113 in my name and to Amendment 114 in the name of the noble...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 112, standing in my name; to Amendment 118, tabled by my nob...

My Lords, I seem to be a lone voice in the Committee today as I support Clause 30 in its current ...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Eaton, is not alone in having some reservations about setting ...

My Lords, belatedly, I will speak to Amendment 118 and in support of Amendments 112, 113 and 114....

My Lords, I have a few additional comments to make in support of Amendment 113, to which I have a...

My Lords, briefly, I would like to record my support for all these amendments, for all the reason...

My Lords, I also support the gist of the amendments but I take the point made by the noble Barone...

My Lords, I should just like to follow up on that suggestion, as it fits in with what I was sayin...

I think we have heard some very wise words from a number of noble Lords. I was particularly taken...

Perhaps I may respond to the noble Lord, Lord Storey. This is precisely what I was saying: the be...

My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging, constructive, informed and thoughtful debate. There has b...

When does the Minister expect the study to be completed, so that we have a timeframe? For example...

It would be a more in-depth study than delivering it before Report would allow. We expect it to r...

Can the noble Baroness reassure us also that if this legislative opportunity is lost but the repo...

I understand that primary legislation would not be needed. We seem to be busy legislating all the...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in what has been a wide-ranging and thoughtful ...

My Lords, there is an error in Amendment 119. It should read, “Page 26, line 16, after the first ...

Moved by

Lord Low of Dalston

123A: Clause 33, page 26, line 38, leave out paragraph (...

This is beginning to feel a bit like hard work. I shall speak also to my Amendment 126, which is ...

My Lords, I shall speak to our Amendment 124 in this group and support the arguments which the no...

My Lords, I have three amendments in this group, two of them on equality rights. I shall start wi...

Listening to noble Lords speaking to this string of amendments I am reminded of the challenges th...

My Lords, my name is attached to Amendment 125. I was slightly surprised by this amendment and sp...

To make it clear, I suggested that it was a probing amendment. As it had been tabled, I felt it w...

I am sorry about that, too. While I am on my feet, I should say that I have a great deal of sympa...

I thank noble Lords for their amendments on inclusive provision. This is the second debate that w...

My Lords, in welcoming the noble Baroness, Lady Sharp, to the Committee, now that she has been ab...

My Lords, this may be a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn.

My Lords, the Committee stands adjourned.