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Children and Adoption Bill [HL]

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Morris of Bolton, for tabling this amendment, because it gives us another opportunity to emphasise the concern about the resourcing of contact. It also permits me to tell the Minister that I now recall it was Beverley Brooks—until quite recently the chair of the National Association of Contact Centres—who was appointed the chair of the committee to look at the funding of contact centres. The committee found that to resource contact centres adequately cost £8 million a year, but, in her evidence to a Select Committee on this new Bill in the other place, she said something to the effect of: ““Now you are asking contact centres to provide a lot of new services””. So she expressed even more concern that contact was not being given the resources it needed to do the job required. To the best of my recollection, the issue in Wales is that there is only one contact centre that provides supervised contact. That is important to our deliberations today.