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Public Bill Committees
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Twelfth sitting)
Committee stage: 12th Sitting - Thu 06 Feb 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) The first is that some people do not like religion, organised religion, or the involvement of the state - Speech Link
2: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those of different - Speech Link
3: None common law defence of reasonable punishment) comes into force at the end of the period of twelve months - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) , within 6 months of the passing of this Act, take steps to implement each of the recommendations made - Speech Link
5: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) that any victim of abuse will have the right to seek an independent review without having to go back - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 08 Jan 2025
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology

Mentions:
1: Peter Kyle (Lab - Hove and Portslade) personal mission as part of the role of the Secretary of State, and we co-chair the Office for Life - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) After years of the Conservatives taking millions of pounds of Russian money, will the Prime Minister - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Lady is prepared to share the details further with me, I will have a review carried out by the team of - Speech Link
4: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We are reviewing the presumption of parental involvement and will set out our position in due course. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Data (Use and Access) Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Wed 18 Dec 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) His Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies Review explicitly recommends incorporating such a defence - Speech Link
2: None It has also been pointed out by Lord Justice Fraser, now a judge of the Court of Appeal, that the presumption - Speech Link
3: None of computer evidence put in front of the court, so that the presumption cannot be a cause for further - Speech Link
4: Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom (Con - Life peer) This was quite true, but they were facilitated by the existence of the presumption. - Speech Link
5: Lord Tarassenko (XB - Life peer) The legal presumption of the proper functioning of “mechanical instruments” that courts in England and - Speech Link


Welsh Government Publication (Report)

Jul. 24 2024

Source Page: Domestic Abuse Improvement and Cultural Change: update statement July 2024
Document: Domestic Abuse Improvement and Cultural Change Update Statement: July 2024 (PDF)

Found: Cafcass Cymru Update Statement July 2024 Page 2 of 5 Domestic Abuse Involvement and Culture Change


Select Committee
University of Bristol, University of Bristol, University of Bristol, and University of Bristol
CMI0104 - Child Maintenance

Written Evidence May. 01 2025

Inquiry: Child Maintenance
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Public Services Committee

Found: after parental separation (Sears, Giliberti, and Sturrock 2019); this is true of most US states, Australia


Lords Chamber
Mental Health Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Mon 25 Nov 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Earl Howe (Con - Excepted Hereditary) However, the Bill stops short of including the full suite of recommendations made by the Wessely review - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) So why not have some kind of presumption that a 17 year-old person with parental responsibility should - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neuberger (XB - Life peer) As noble Lords know, I was one of the three vice-chairs of Simon Wessely’s review. - Speech Link
4: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) One of the main reasons for commissioning the independent review was to examine why so many people of - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Consultation analysis)
Children and Families Directorate

Feb. 26 2025

Source Page: Children's Hearings Redesign Consultation Analysis Independent Report Commissioned by Scottish Government
Document: Children’s Hearings redesign consultation analysis (PDF)

Found: In May 2020, following a 20- month review of the CHS, “Hearings for Children: The report of the Hearings


Deposited Papers

May. 22 2008

Source Page: Direct payments guidance: community care, services for carers and children's services (direct payments) guidance 2003. 68 p.
Document: DEP2008-1370.pdf (PDF)

Found: aged under 16, with the consent of a person with parental responsibility, usually a parent.


Public Bill Committees
Employment Rights Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 26 Nov 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Alison Hume (Lab - Scarborough and Whitby) I refer to my declaration of interests and my membership of Unison and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain - Speech Link
2: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) Our members also support some of the measures on things such as equal pay, parental leave and family-friendly - Speech Link
3: Uma Kumaran (Lab - Stratford and Bow) improvements to parental rights that will help to ensure that there is a fairer share of parental responsibilities - Speech Link
4: Greg Smith (Con - Mid Buckinghamshire) We welcome the fact that there will be a review, but we need to think about this as part of those measures.I - Speech Link
5: Marie Tidball (Lab - Penistone and Stocksbridge) the parental leave review happen as quickly as possible, and paternity leave increased, ringfenced and - Speech Link


Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
Parental responsibilities and rights
Sep. 03 2024
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This briefing explains the system of 'parental responsibilities and rights' under the Children (Scotland) Act 1995. The 1995 Act is a key piece of legislation affecting the lives of parents and children in Scotland. For example, it provides the mechanism for the courts to resolve disputes arising between parents about the care of their children.

Found: Sarah Harvie-Clark This briefing explains the system of 'parental responsibilities and rights' under