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Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Bill

My worry is not information sharing but physical contact—the ability to pick up a child who has grazed their knee, to put them on your own knee or whatever. This is not just in child centres; it is in schools and throughout society. Matt of the Daily Telegraph, who so often puts his finger on the pulse, had a cartoon the other day of a child at his 18th birthday party being congratulated on having finished being a boy and instead becoming a suspected paedophile. It is a horrible situation; there are times now when one cannot express one’s compassion without at the back of one’s mind being afraid of being labelled as having some other motive. That is much more general than we are ready to acknowledge.