Children and Families Bill

This is a model of how amendments can be dealt with. The ministerial team have gone to great leng...

My Lords, it may be helpful to the Committee if, at this point, I outline the government amendmen...

My Lords, I am speaking to Amendment 224, to which we have added our names, and to Amendments 225...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 224, to which my name is attached. I will also make some comments ...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the Government on producing their amendment, which is a sig...

My Lords, no one can be anything but absolutely delighted at the government amendment. I, too, wa...

My Lords, I will briefly follow what my noble friend has said in terms of the practical implement...

My Lords, I join in the praise for the Government on taking this issue very seriously indeed. The...

My Lords, I thank my noble friends Lord Storey and Lady Tyler, and the noble Baronesses, Lady Hug...

My Lords, I will press the Minister on one thing. He has clearly not referred to governing bodies...

The noble Baroness, Lady Howe, has raised an important point. As she probably knows, school gover...

I beg leave to withdraw Amendment 224.

Moved by

Baroness Massey of Darwen

231: After Clause 73, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I ask Members of the Committee to allow me to remain seated while I move my amendment b...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 232(Rev) and 233 as this might help with the subsequent deba...

My Lords, the Committee is about to hear from the Lib Dems because I was delighted to add my name...

My Lords, I am delighted to have been tempted into the Committee by the noble Baroness, Lady Mass...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a film maker because it is in that capacity that I have spent ...

My Lords, I also would like to speak briefly in support of Amendment 233, which was so ably and v...

My Lords, briefly, I lend my support to all three amendments. In their different ways they are de...

My Lords, my Amendment 57, which had a great deal of support earlier on in this Committee, was on...

My Lords, I go back a long way on the whole business of citizenship, which is what I shall call i...

I am sure that we are all very happy to bring this fascinating discussion to a close, but I want ...

Since the noble Baroness has just mentioned my name, I will say one sentence. I absolutely agree ...

My Lords, following what has just been said, the strongest reason for making PSHE statutory has b...

Can I come back briefly on that? The noble Earl has underlined the point we were making: addressi...

First, I welcome the very clever amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Massey. Someti...

My Lords, I, too, support these amendments and congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Massey, on h...

My Lords, I hesitate to speak after such a powerful speech, but I want to make three brief points...

My Lords, we agree about so much here. Everything that noble Lords have mentioned is what a good ...

Will my noble friend amplify that point? He very kindly said that he would be glad to convene a m...

Can the Minister answer the point made by my noble friend Lord Listowel about the ways in which t...

We have great concerns about the quality of teacher training in this country, which is one of the...

I just want to correct what I believe to be a misunderstanding about what Amendment 232(Rev) says...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for raising the point about the training of teachers. ...

About a year ago, I wrote to the noble Lord’s predecessor, the noble Lord, Lord Hill, on this poi...

I can confirm that that is still the position.

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his responses and will come on to those later. Meanwhile, I si...

Moved by

The Earl of Listowel

234: After Clause 73, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, the amendment would ensure that all care leavers, including young asylum seekers and mi...

My Lords, my name is added to this amendment. I would like to speak particularly about young peop...

My Lords, I wish to speak briefly in support of the amendment, and I am very pleased that it has ...

My Lords, I support this amendment. Noble Lords will recall that I talked about a similar group o...

My Lords, this is an important amendment. The Refugee Children’s Consortium, a coalition of more ...

My Lords, for 21 years I was a lay member of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal. I used to hate it w...

My Lords, I understand that the way adults in this situation are treated is to wait until there i...

My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Slos...

I apologise for interrupting the noble Baroness. Can she give us the timing of the study in relat...

The report should come through in February. It will inform what the Government might or might not...

The Refugee Children’s Consortium and the Children’s Society do not think that trafficked childre...

I thank the noble and learned Baroness for that. I am sure that my colleagues here will take that...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her sympathetic and careful response. I was particularly pleas...

Moved by

Baroness Hughes of Stretford

235: Before Clause 74, insert the following new...

My Lords, Amendments 235 and 236 would simply place in the Bill the current permitted staff/child...

My Lords, I am one of the Peers who is concerned about the government proposals to change the rat...

My Lords, not for the first time the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, has hit the nail right on the hea...

My Lords, I can assure the noble Baroness, Lady Hughes, that as a mother I would never regard chi...

The noble Baroness is correct. However, I would like her to acknowledge that we did not try to in...

I think that the noble Baroness understands why it makes sense that they are there.

Noble L...

I thank the noble Baroness for her response and the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, and the noble Baro...

Moved by

Baroness Morgan of Ely

237: Clause 74, page 51, line 10, at beginning insert...

I will speak, on behalf of my noble friends Lady Jones and Lady Hughes, to Amendments 237, 239 an...

My Lords, I have considerable concerns about this clause, which is why I have given notice of my ...

My Lords, I want to ask the Minister how the vision and the application of this proposal will wor...

My Lords, I welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan of Ely, to the Grand Committee. It is very he...

Will the Minister answer two questions given that the statement of policy intention talks about t...

My Lords, I would like to speak to the group of amendments including Clause 74 stand part, Amendm...

Can my noble friend the Minister answer my question about whether the assessment of the pilots wi...

I will attempt to answer that question in a minute. All the organisations I mentioned are getting...

My Lords, before the noble Baroness, Lady Morgan, withdraws her amendment, as I assume she will, ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for addressing some of those issues. I would like to pick up on a ...

What would stop the Government from injecting funds into local authorities to enable them to buil...

I will take that away. My first thought would be that we have not got any money at the moment. Se...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Nash

240A: Schedule 4, page 175, line 21, at end insert—

“( ) Reg...

My Lords, this is a probing amendment because we now have a very new and different Ofsted framewo...

My Lords, the aim of this clause is to enable early years providers to request and pay for a rein...

I thank my noble friend for her reply. As I said at the outset, this is a probing debate. The Min...