Children and Social Work Bill [HL]

My Lords, we are at the start of Committee on this important and valuable Bill. Although, sadly, ...

I must advise the Committee—rather unusually—that, if this amendment is agreed to, I shall be una...

I will speak to Amendments 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 19 and 20. I do not disagree at all with the ame...

My Lords, I have Amendment 18 in this group, which adds wording about protecting safety and provi...

My Lords, I am probably one of only three people in this room who has actually been a corporate p...

My Lords, briefly and telegraphically, I particularly note proposed subsection (1)(h) in Amendmen...

My Lords, I will introduce a totally different note into the debate. I want assurances from the G...

My Lords, I will speak briefly. I welcome the corporate parenting principles in the Bill, but I h...

My Lords, as the only person in this Room who will have applied the Children Act from the day it ...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly in support of what my noble friend Lady Armstrong said—but pe...

My Lords, with regard to “have regard to”, there is no question that “have regard to” involves a ...

I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, for raising that point because it informs what I...

My Lords, I agree with much of what has been said so far. I am looking at the end product—the chi...

My Lords, as another corporate parent from a local authority, I am pleased to join in this discus...

My Lords, when I first studied the raft of amendments tabled to this important Bill it seemed lik...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Howe, Lady Walmsley and Lady Pinnock, and t...

My Lords, just before the noble Baroness, Lady Howe, replies, the Minister mentioned on several o...

With respect to the lawyers present—including myself from many years ago—I will not comment on th...

I thank the noble Lord for answering my point about siblings. I look forward to the debate on the...

My Lords, I am sure that noble Lords will agree that this has been an interesting a wide-ranging ...

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 7, after “England” insert “and its...

My Lords, Amendment 2 is a probing amendment. After all the things have been said about laying ou...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendments 3, 31A, 36 and 37 in this group. They would all have t...

My Lords, I have Amendment 5 in this group and lend my support to Amendments 4 and 31, which are ...

My Lords, I support Amendments 3, 31A and 36, which, as the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, said, seek...

My Lords, I very much support the spirit of this group of amendments, but not necessarily the wor...

My Lords, I have some difficulty in the way that this clause and the next clauses are drafted. Th...

My Lords, I agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Warner, said. The spirit of these amendments str...

My Lords, I speak as a corporate parent. I am a corporate parent for the nearly 400 young people ...

My Lords, before the noble Baroness sits down, perhaps I may say that those of us who also have b...

To add to that, the danger is that government policy will undermine what local authorities are tr...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 4 and 31 in this group. Clause 1(1)(d) refers to “relevant ...

My Lords, Clause 1 introduces for the first time seven principles to which local authorities must...

I was just suggesting that that should be looked at and that lessons could be learned.

The noble Lord makes a good point: we should look at it and see what lessons can be learned, as S...

Can the Minister explain what part of Section 10 actually requires other agencies to co-operate? ...

My Lords, I am advised that the relevant clause does actually promote co-operation between these ...

I am sorry but I want to pursue this. The clause is clearly—

I think that the Minister was referring to Section 10 of the Children Act 1989, not to a clause i...

That certainly was not what he said.

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. Many issues have come up during the course of t...

I am very happy to hold a meeting.

I am most grateful to the Minister. With that, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

9: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, after “interests,” insert “pre...

My Lords, this is where I can offer an explanation to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay, ab...

My Lords, first, I apologise for Amendment 28A. That is my fault because, having been asked to ta...

My Lords, these are extremely important amendments from the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, and, by ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, for raising concerns about the legal aspects o...

My Lords, I support Amendments 14 and 28A, with particular reference to unaccompanied asylum-seek...

My Lords, the report In Care, Out of Trouble: How the life chances of children in care can be tra...

My Lords, I too support Amendments 14 and 28A, but I want to speak mainly in support of Amendment...

My Lords, first, I very much support the amendments that wish to provide legal assistance to chil...

My Lords, I want to make two small points, the first of which was introduced quite well by the no...

It may interest the noble Baroness to know that one of my first jobs with children was working in...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, and the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister, particularly for her closing remark because many noble L...

Moved by

Baroness Massey of Darwen

10: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, after “health” inse...

My Lords, in the last hour or so we have heard a lot of talk about prevention, and the Minister l...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 17 and 21. In doing so, I draw attention to my various educ...

I shall speak to Amendments 23 and 25, and I support the amendments of the noble Baroness, Lady M...

My Lords, I am afraid that my Amendment 24 in this group would add further corporate parenting pr...

My Lords, my amendment in this group is Amendment 28. But before I turn to it I should say that, ...

Amendment 33 in this group is mine. In the natural parent system there are normally one or two pe...

My Lords, I have Amendments 34 and 87 in this grouping. I shall deal with Amendment 87 first, for...

My Lords, I support Amendments 10, 16, 34 and 87 and the separate issue that is Amendment 33. I a...

My Lords, I visited my GP last week and she expressed her concerns about the number of care leave...

My Lords, nothing has been said during this debate that one could reasonably disagree with. My on...

My Lords, undoubtedly many telling points have been made on these wide-ranging amendments. I cann...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 10, 16, 17, 21 to 25, 28, 33 and 34, 80A and 81A, 84A and 8...

Given the strength of feeling that has been expressed on all sides about the mental health amendm...

With pleasure.

Before the noble Baroness withdraws her amendment, I want to say how very pleased I was to hear t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that very complete response. This has