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I am deeply troubled that the police use children as covert human intelligence sources. In 2022, children were used in investigations involving Class A drugs and firearms. Some of those authorisations were not even reported in time for any oversight to happen. Children are not trained officers; they are children, placed by the state into dangerous criminal environments. A system that grants advanced immunity and shuts the door on judicial scrutiny offers them no real protection. That alone is reason enough to support this amendment. It also offers a judge’s oversight after the event, not open-ended political reassurance beforehand. It is a model used successfully in other countries and reassures the public that no one is above the law, not even in the shadows. I do not see this as asking us to choose between security and liberty. It asks us to recognise that you cannot have lasting security without accountability.