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Welfare Reform Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Sherlock (Labour) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 10 November 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
I will not trade research, but I think it would be helpful to come back to this on Report. I just want to put down a marker that some of the research around the impact of maternal work centres around two things. The two outstanding issues are, first, the quality of substitute care and how you control that in evaluating the impact on child development; and, secondly, the degree to which the mother wishes to work, which has always been a significant issue. There has been some work suggesting that if the mother wants to work, the effect on the mother can be positive, and that that is communicated to the child and, if that is not the situation, the opposite is communicated. Until now our regime has not required lone parents or partners to go out to work against their wishes in those circumstances. Obviously it is a little harder to do. Perhaps in his research the noble Lord might look at what might be the nearest parallel to that. Perhaps we should have a coffee and discuss research at a later date.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
732 c103GC 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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