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HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)I think the Minister answered this question when she said that, in respect of caps, she was working on a regional basis, but does the provision give the Government the power to…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)We are entering a whole new section of the Bill. I will make a number of points now that we could come back to when we debate future clauses, but I hope we will not have to. I…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)We support clause 19, which closes an important gap in the law regarding the ill treatment and neglect of 16 and 17-year-olds. I have some specific questions. Have the Government…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)I think the most natural reading is that those children should be covered, because they are in the YOIs. I just wondered whether there was a potential issue because they are not…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the Minister for her patience. Will the Government undertake to have an authority-by-authority assessment of what the patchwork quilt looks like now? For everyone’s ease…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I would like to push amendment 23 to a vote.28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 23, in clause 7, page 12, line 13, at end insert — “(3A) Where staying close support is provided, it must be provided with due regard to the wishes of the…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)I have a question about babysitters, which are one of the hardest cases here. This question is as much about the existing law as it is about the proposed change in the cut-off…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. As we return to our work on the Bill with clause 7, I want to say that it is still a bit disappointing that we have…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)rose —28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 24, in clause 10, page 16, line 39, at end insert — “(8A) After subsection (9) insert — ‘(10) Where a child is kept in secure accommodation under this…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)As the Minister says, the clause essentially centralises and harmonises differences in rules on children’s employment, which are currently set partly at the local level. As a…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)This is a good and sensible clause, and the Opposition support its inclusion in the Bill. I would note that although all these clauses are good, they come with an administrative…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)We have come to a particularly serious clause—not that the other clauses are not serious, but the use of deprivation of liberty orders for children is always deeply troubling, as…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I thought I had heard Ministers say previously that they were planning to publish this for our benefit—that we would get both the impact assessment and the children’s rights…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)Is the child rights impact assessment for the Bill published so that we can see it?28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I hope that we can clear up the confusion about whether we will see the children’s rights assessment. I cannot see any good reason why we would not be able to see that perfectly…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for his informative speech, but can I press him to respond to the specific points made by CAFCASS and the Children’s Commissioner? The Minister is…28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fifth sitting)I think Ministers have said in previous sittings that it will be published during the process of scrutiny, along with the impact assessment. Is that still the case?28 Jan 2025HANSARDChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Sixth sitting)I simply want to lodge a very specific question about proposed new section 30ZC(3)(a) of the Care Standards Act 2000 and the category of people who may not be given a regulatory…28 Jan 2025