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Children and Families Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Northbourne (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 17 December 2013. It occurred during Debate on bills on Children and Families Bill.

I am of course most grateful to the noble Lord for a very full response. I hate to say this, but I think that the statistics which I disclosed in my earlier remarks show that those well intentioned things which the Government are doing are, alas, not achieving the objective we hope. I wonder if we could not perhaps rethink how we approach this issue. Instead of telling young people what they should not do, why do we not make them feel good about doing what they should do—proud to be a father, proud to be a good parent? I do not know, but it is just an idea.

Anyway, I think I have to accept that primary legislation is not the answer now. I believe one day we will find it will improve the law in the 1989 Act because it is currently too vague for words to be of the slightest use, but that is another matter. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

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Reference

750 c1160 

Session

2013-14

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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