I am grateful to the Minister—I am aware of the passage of time. The Minister would help me enormously if he could consider using the word "well-being" rather than "welfare". I know that the regulations are common and go across a lot of benefits, but there is a significant psychological difference between the well-being of a child, which has a psychological content and is more broadly based, and welfare, which is just about whether it is being fed, not starving. The guidance to the professionals taking those decisions should refer specifically to the well-being, not the welfare of the child.
Welfare Reform Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Lords on Thursday, 11 June 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
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