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Children and Social Work Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank everyone who has participated in the debate and the Minister for her largely positive response. I certainly

welcome that she is considering what we said in Amendment 77 and will come back on that. I welcome also the fact that virtual school heads will be a sole responsibility, so presumably other resources will have to be made available to make sure nothing is taken away from existing budgets. I want to make sure that the individual appointed—mentioned in Clause 4(4)—is not being taken away from doing anything else that he or she was doing, as has often been the case with other new appointments. This is not the time to discuss the PSHE argument and I would say only one other thing to the noble Lord, Lord O’Shaughnessy. I do not know him well enough to make this accusation to him personally, but there always will be some people who will say we are not yet ready for PSHE being a statutory requirement in schools. Some of the statistics on young people’s exposure, particularly to sexual activity, be it in real life or virtually—online or whatever—suggest that they have to get as much information as early as possible, and we need to find ways of doing that. There is nothing more for me to say on that. Again, I welcome the Minister’s response and I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

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Reference

773 c161GC 

Session

2016-17

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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