Baroness Cass (CB)

My Lords, I declare an interest as a veteran of many health service reorganisations, through which I have consistently advocated for children and young people not to be forgotten, so it will not be a

My Lords, I have spoken to my clinical colleagues about the issue of age at enrolment and they expect enrolment at 11 or 12 to be vanishingly rare. However, I ask noble Lords to consider the case of a

My Lords, this is complex, and people across both sides of the House share one objective: to be cautious, careful and protective of children and young people. It is not my place here to answer many of

My Lords, this debate seems to have characterised everyone in the House as being either supporters or opponents of the Bill. I declare myself somewhere in the middle, and I suspect that there are many

Nobody here is saying that consultations are all a waste of time. What we are saying is that this particular consultation is deeply flawed in its construction.

My Lords, I was going to talk about the consultation, which is fundamentally not fit for purpose, but other noble Lords have covered that well, so I want to make a couple of other points about the way