Members on both sides of the Chamber. It makes complete sense to commit the Bill to a special Select Committee. Today's debate made the issues seem all too simple whereas, as we know, the problems with which the Bill deals are extraordinarily complex. Of course targets will be different in different parts of the country, depending on the mix of children and their ages and disabilities. Although speed is desirable in placements, achieving permanent placements is even more desirable.
Nothing is worse for a child than to be rejected time after time.
Rejection is depressing for children and produces extremely poor outcomes. I also hope that the special Select Committee will examine some of the evidence taken by the Select Committee on Health, for example, in its inquiry on migrant children. Moreover, that event is not so historical. People alive today are grieving the loss of children whom they lost in the 1960s and 1970s, after being told that they could not support them and that it would be best for them to be given up. I hope that the Select Committee will take evidence from those mothers, who were disfranchised.