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Childcare Bill

: As the Minister rightly said, I was not here at the beginning of the debate—I was chairing a churches meeting elsewhere—but I want to pick up a specific point on assessment. To talk about well-being by itself is useless to parents. I do not know how one would count it or measure it. If we go back to the Court child health report or the Plowden primary school report, we see that everything in them is measurable and there are procedures for assessing them. I hope that the Minister will reflect on what she has said and, if she will not accept the amendment now, talk to her officials and get better advice than she has offered to the House.