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Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

We welcome this amendment. Although people are working hard to provide the best possible care for children, there is no substitute for the opinions of a child or a young person on their experience of care. The child should be at the forefront of policy making and a child’s voice should be listened to and carefully recorded. I had hoped that that would happen in best practice. In an organisation with which I used to be involved, we used to say that if something is not written down it has not happened. I shall listen to what the Minister has to say before making a final decision on whether I think that this should be brought back on Report and whether it should be in the Bill. I thought that the noble Baroness made some powerful arguments.