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However, I have had very interesting and helpful discussions with the Minister, who is to be congratulated on being prepared to put up with me going to talk to her extremely late in the evening. I hope that she will say in her reply that all this will be in the code of practice. If we can include parents, special guardians and other people with parental responsibility, where a court has not in fact said that their parental responsibility should either be terminated or reduced, and if ordinary decent parents can at least be referred to in the code of practice and expected to play a part, however small—not a veto, just a consultation part—that would be second best, but it would be better than nothing.