Member

I was planning to say a little more about Amendment 69A than my noble friend decided to. The amendment understandably focuses on cases where there has been a conviction, but we know that this is a very complicated area, and there are various things about my noble friend’s amendment that make me uneasy. First, there are vastly more cases—perhaps particularly in the area of child sexual abuse but certainly in that of domestic abuse, which I know personally the most about—where there will be no conviction. I worry that such an amendment could bring a focus to a subset of cases that, ironically, might not be the most worrying in terms of child safety.