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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Parenting and Young Offenders

As the Lords does not have a Speaker who calls Peers in turn we all have to scrabble to be heard. Unintentionally I pushed Baroness Howe out but she got back in later!

The issue was young offenders and I was anxious to draw attention to the parenting link and to the Governments recent announcements on assistance for parents.

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds06/text/61129-0001.htm#061129102000005