Member

Lords amendment 17 seeks to address a gap in the care planning regulations—something that I was promised over a decade ago. However, by adopting my amendment from Report, the gap would be closed and contact arrangements for all children in care would be strengthened across the board. I thank the Minister for Children and Families, my hon. Friend the Member for Whitehaven and Workington (Josh MacAlister), for his engagement with me on this issue, but in common with my hon. Friend the Member for Dulwich and West Norwood (Helen Hayes), I sincerely hope that when this Bill returns to us from the other place, children in care will at long last be given the right to have the most precious of relationships preserved.