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Commons Chamber
Birth Trauma - Thu 19 Oct 2023
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Lady agree that in such scenarios, counselling and help should be offered at the beginning and should - Speech Link
2: Douglas Ross (Con - Moray) At what should be and often is the happiest time in our lives as parents, to go through that trauma is - Speech Link
3: Cherilyn Mackrory (Con - Truro and Falmouth) All the services around maternity, during labour and afterwards, including counselling services, must - Speech Link
4: Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab - Erith and Thamesmead) Midwives do not have the expertise or the time, and the result is that parents’ mental health is not - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Freedom of Religion and Belief - Tue 19 Sep 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) very active working group, and we are beginning to network on international best practice for trauma counselling - Speech Link
2: Fiona Bruce (CON - Congleton) crime of one, and where a two-year-old child has been sentenced to life in prison simply because his parents - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Support for Bereaved Children - Thu 14 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Taiwo Owatemi (LAB - Coventry North West) There was no support or counselling, and we were told to focus on our education and left to our own accord - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) We need to support bereaved parents who have to look after their grieving children as well as trying - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Life Skills and Citizenship - Thu 07 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) I was particularly concerned with welfare counselling in the hands of the untrained, as I had witnessed - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) , particularly in how sex and relationships education is taught, schools can contradict good values parents - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sater (CON - Life peer) Recent research by Santander shows that over two-thirds, or 68%, of parents believe teaching children - Speech Link


Grand Committee
A Failure of Implementation (Children and Families Act 2014 Committee Report) - Wed 06 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LDEM - Life peer) We held round-table discussions with birth parents, adoptive parents in Yorkshire, young people with - Speech Link
2: Lord Farmer (CON - Life peer) Parents would have access to all the other help in family hubs, such as parenting support, debt counselling - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) as a “life event”, thereby allowing them access to more flexible working and pointing them towards counselling - Speech Link
4: Baroness Wyld (CON - Life peer) We took evidence from experts, and from children and their parents or carers. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete in Education Settings - Mon 04 Sep 2023
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) Parents and children have been looking forward to starting the new term, and I understand that the timing - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LDEM - Excepted Hereditary) I have every sympathy with parents who are deeply worried about the situation and everything that teachers - Speech Link
3: Lord Hampton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) buildings and children, but can the Government assure the House that they will provide extra support and counselling - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sir David Amess Summer Adjournment - Thu 20 Jul 2023
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Carolyn Harris (LAB - Swansea East) Everyone Deserves will be providing lunch for some fantastic free activities to ease the burden for parents - Speech Link
2: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) figures and can significantly challenge sexual misconduct in sport, and they must do more.Like many parents - Speech Link
3: Holly Mumby-Croft (CON - Scunthorpe) and the work she does in our community through Hope House is exceptional, providing support groups, counselling - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Victims and Prisoners Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th sitting - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Ellie Reeves (LAB - Lewisham West and Penge) family were horrified to find that their daughter’s killer retained rights over the children.Jade’s parents - Speech Link
2: Oliver Heald (CON - North East Hertfordshire) In circumstances such as those, we could imagine that the mother’s parents might be looking after the - Speech Link
3: Edward Argar (CON - Charnwood) Member for Alyn and Deeside introduced me to Jade’s parents, who were there to listen to that debate. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Champion (LAB - Rotherham) Because of their own or their parents’ insecure immigration status and the no recourse to public funds - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Ethnic Minority and Migrant Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jess Phillips (LAB - Birmingham, Yardley) of the threat to her life—two attempts had been made on her life, and on the lives of her child and parents—turned - Speech Link
2: Sarah Dines (CON - Derbyshire Dales) scheme provides wraparound support for migrant victims, including accommodation, subsistence support and counselling - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Adult and Further Education - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) They enable parents to develop their own commitment to learning in a way that is beneficial to their - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LDEM - Twickenham) Let me finish my point on the childcare qualifications by saying that I do not think parents will thank - Speech Link
3: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) as navigators to advise people struggling with mental health, smoking cessation, debt advice, couple counselling - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (CON - South Northamptonshire) Parents are often crying out for a bit of help because they feel jittery, they do not feel confident - Speech Link