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Children and Young Persons Bill [HL]

My Lords, I too support all these amendments. They are absolutely essential for the vulnerable people about whom we are talking. It is essential for the young person in prison to have someone to visit them, to have contact with them and to have a relationship with them, if there is to be any hope for them when they come out of prison. As my noble friend Lord Ramsbotham said, once they are in prison, thought must be given to accommodation for them when they come out and employment and training that will enable them to move into a more profitable way of life for them and for the country. There are not many good things about the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill—it has far too much in it—but if it allows my noble friend Lord Ramsbotham to have one more go at having this clause debated fully, with time for everyone to express their views, I shall think more highly of it than I do at the moment.