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Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

I should like to take up the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, about the responsibility that parents have to look after their own children. I also draw attention to the fact that my Amendment No. 102—it comes right at the end of the Marshalled List, so I am not sure when we will come to it—is on the subject of parents’ responsibilities. It is a fact that there is no clear statement in English law on the responsibility of parents towards their children, but it seems to me that that basic piece of information is fundamental to all the discussions that we are having.