Children and Families Bill

I think that this is the amendment the noble Baroness was thinking about. I shall speak also to A...

Will the Minister clarify a couple of points about the potential scope and impact of the amendmen...

As the noble Baroness noted, these powers have been there but have not been used. I want to be ex...

Can the Minister possibly write to me about this? I am particularly interested in proposed new su...

Perhaps the best thing would be for me to reiterate that the Secretary of State’s ability to remo...

Moved by

Lord Nash

241BA: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—

“Di...

My Lords, I will speak to all the amendments in this group: Amendments 241BA, 241C, 241D, 273B an...

Perhaps the best way I can thank the Minister is by speaking as briefly as possible. Having worke...

Moved by

Lord Nash

241C: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—

“Obj...

Moved by

The Earl of Listowel

242: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—<...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 242, I wish to speak also to my Amendment 244.

Amendment 242 ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 247 to 249 in our names. In doing so, I would like to suppor...

My Lords, I support Amendments 242 and 244 in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, but ask ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 242, to which my name is attached. The noble Earl, Lord Listowel, h...

I apologise for addressing my noble friend Lady Jones as my noble friend Lady Hughes throughout m...

My Lords, we all merge into one after a while. I start by emphasising to noble Lords that the Gov...

Will the Minister say a little more about the Jo Swinson task-and-finish group? I understand that...

I think it would be best if I wrote to the noble Baroness with further details and copied the let...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who took part in this debate. I particularly thank the Minister...

Moved by

Baroness Walmsley

243: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 246, which I have agreed should be grouped with Amendme...

My Lords, with the permission of the Grand Committee, I will speak sitting down. I declare an int...

My Lords, I am going to find myself in the difficult position of disagreeing absolutely with the ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 243 because it throws into the ring just how absurd this situation ...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly in support of Amendment 246.

I cannot see any justifica...

I will speak to Amendment 246, which I have also put my name to, and I thank my noble friend Baro...

My Lords, I, too, strongly support the amendments of my noble friend Lady Walmsley.

I will ...

My Lords, these amendments both relate to safeguarding specific groups of children. I will turn f...

I understand the point my noble friend makes about the reluctance of parents to report abuses. Do...

As I mentioned, this is a voluntary code. We are developing it and taking it forward. I am well a...

I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply to all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate...

That is absolutely right, but it is not the law that will change what is happening; it is having ...

I thank the noble Baroness for her additional comments. I am not saying that training is not a go...

Moved by

Baroness Massey of Darwen

245: After Clause 78, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 245, I will speak to Amendments 257 and 260 in this group and kick ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 262, which has my name on it. I am speaking on behalf of t...

My Lords, I support Amendment 245 in particular. In doing so, I hope that the Committee will allo...

I support the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, in his contention. We have a Minister for Children, an...

My Lords, I will not speak in detail about the amendments but I should like to express my general...

My Lords, I will be reasonably brief on the three amendments to which I have added my name, altho...

My Lords, I have also put my name to three amendments and support the others in this group. It is...

My Lords, we have heard some very powerful arguments in favour of strengthening the process of ap...

My Lords, I will be leading on another group of amendments and will try not to duplicate anything...

My Lords, Amendments 245, 255A and 257 through to 262 deal with issues related to the Children’s ...

I am sorry to interrupt but perhaps the Minister can say what he considers to be the appropriate ...

We will provide an update on Report but the appropriate time is after Royal Assent.

I am sorry but the point is that the devil is in the detail, as I said, and Report, or possibly T...

We will take this away and consider it further. As regards the point made by the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that response. This has been an incredibly perceptive debate a...

Moved by

Viscount Eccles

249A: Clause 79, page 52, line 11, leave out from “promoting...

My Lords, I would like to continue to probe the question: what is the Government’s true opinion o...

My Lords, I have some amendments in this group, but before I speak to them, I will say a word abo...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 252 in a group of amendments that are largely designed to str...

Nothing in the 2004 Act would prevent the commissioner saying anything that she wants to say, or ...

But because it was not an explicitly children’s rights-based institution, it did not have the sta...

My Lords, in this varied and lengthy group, I want to focus on Amendment 266A, although I support...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 251. It would allow the Children’s Commissioner to conduct a...

My Lords, I have a third amendment in this group, to Schedule 6 and on a very different subject. ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 249A to 256, 266A and 266AZZA.

Amendment 249A was tab...

My Lords, I have not been able to sit through the passage of this Bill, so I am not in a position...

I will write to the noble Lord on this matter.

My Lords, I am grateful to all those who took part and to the Minister for his reply. At the risk...

My Lords, we have been given permission to go on until 8 pm, as I announced at the beginning of t...

I have to remind your Lordships that the usual channels have agreed that the next two groups will...

Moved by

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

263: After Clause 88, insert the following new C...

My Lords, I will be as brief as I can, and my noble friend—as I must say for the purposes of thes...

My Lords, it will not escape the Committee’s notice that Amendments 263 and 264 are cross-party a...

My Lords, I know that other noble Lords want to speak, but perhaps because my noble friend and I ...

My Lords, my name is attached to Amendments 263 and 264. I want briefly to say why I feel so stro...

My Lords, my name is on Amendment 263 and I shall be very brief indeed. We have just been discuss...

My Lords, I hear my name mentioned and I think I ought to say something very briefly. Your Lordsh...

My words in front of me say that this may be a convenient moment for the Committee to adjourn. I ...