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Baroness Bousted (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 January 2026

Debate

Toilet-training: Support for Parents

Contribution

Does the Minister agree that the exponential rise in child poverty in the period in government of the previous Administration caused huge harm to children in school readiness, in toilet-training, and in speech and language development? Teachers reported that children came to school significantly harmed by the poverty in which their families lived. Does she agree that that is one of the major causes of the problems we now see?

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