Clause 1 - Establishment
Children Bill [Lords]
10:30 am
Ms Lorna Fitzsimons (Rochdale, Labour)
May I check my understanding? The job that we are discussing is similar to our job. We are meant to be legislators and scrutineers but also caseworkers, and obviously one role informs the other, but we have to get the balance right between our different roles. Does my right hon. Friend want the commissioner to look up, and to look across Government in the widest possible spheres to ensure that Ministers foresee issues that may be of interest or detriment to children as and when they come up, rather than simply looking down and policing the rights that are already enshrined in legislation anyway?