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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 May 2025

Debate

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Contribution

The noble Lord, Lord Meston, is right about having some kind of objective criteria against which you decide whether or not to share information. Indeed, in a multi-agency world, you want those to be multi-agency criteria, because the gold dust is when the police start to worry about pregnant women and their vulnerability, and midwives start to worry about allegations of kidnap. The police know what that means and midwives know the significance of abuse in pregnancy and harm to an unborn child, but we want them to worry about each other’s risks.

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