---

Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

As the Minister noted, there is within the clause the let-out of what is ““reasonably practicable””. Time and again, that is used by local authorities to escape the duties that he has just told us about. That is the problem. In practice, there should be good contact with siblings, but it sometimes goes by the board because, as the noble Baroness, Lady Howarth, said, it comes down to there just not being the resources to find enough placements to make it easy to place children close by or to put two siblings together, which creates all the problems that we have been talking about.