It is indeed crucial, but there is a limit to how much we can legislate for the proper care of children. The noble Baroness is speaking of proper pastoral care in school, but if we were to start making laws about all pastoral care it would, first, take up an enormous amount of parliamentary time and, secondly, kill the school.
Equality Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Elton
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 13 January 2010.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Equality Bill.
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