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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 February 2026
Debate
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillContribution
The United Kingdom ratified that convention in 1991. At present, there remains a noticeable disparity between the different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom and the British Isles. As we have heard, in 2011, Wales introduced a Measure to provide that Ministers, when exercising their functions, must have due regard to the requirements of Part I of the convention and specified protocols. There was indirect incorporation by Jersey in a law passed in 2022. Scotland went further with direct and full incorporation of the convention in 2024. England is now lagging behind. In a speech in 2019, the former President of the Family Division, the late Sir James Munby, said this:
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