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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 December 2025

Debate

Sentencing Bill

Contribution

My third argument concerns stigmatisation of the families. The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, has already mentioned the problem of children in schools and the way in which other kids can pick on them, the bullying that takes place, and so on. I am not being sexist when I say this but it is very often the mothers who pick up children and there is equally the stigmatisation that they will get when they come to pick up children from school.

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