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It is important to say that it is not just morally right that children who have the ability to do so should have a say about what is happening to them and a say in all the other ways that the noble Baroness just outlined. That moral rightness is powerfully and importantly attested to in the fourth part of this amendment, which refers to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is important that we keep referring to such conventions, but it is also important for people’s health and well-being to have a sense of agency and a sense that this is their life in which they are able to live and make choices. We heard in the earlier group from the noble Earl, Lord Howe, about Blooming Change and how people experience life being done to them and treatment being done to them, rather than it being something in which they actually have a say.