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Part of Children, Schools and Families Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:33 pm on 21 January 2010.

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Q216Tim Loughton: Perhaps I am not making myself clear. Sir Mark made the clear point that there is a fear that you turn up the first day, get a headline story and then the full story does not come out. There is not balanced reporting. That is one point that I put to you.

The second point is that certain parts of the media are waging a campaign in order to expose the family courts, for whatever agenda the media has. I am suspicious that it is not because they want to get a better quality of people operating in the family courts, where there have  been genuine criticisms about the quality of social worker reports etc. You are not even having a balanced debate in the press because others—some of whom are here—have genuine concerns that going the way that we are going will actually be counter-productive to fair justice. I have not seen those sort of articles carried in the newspapers of the people you represent.