Clause 1 - Contact activity directions and conditions
Children and Adoption Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
Jeremy Wright (Rugby and Kenilworth, Conservative)
Does my hon. Friend agree that in the example given by the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Kidney), the issue for the court would not necessarily be whether there had been a long gap in contact between the relevant parent and the child, but whether that gap had caused a difficulty with contact that needed to be remedied? In that context, “shortcoming” is designed not to criticise the parent in question, but to try to deal with a problem that the court has identified.