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One aspect is ensuring that we have the right framework that allows information to be shared for the benefit of children when it is appropriate to do so. The other point is that we talk about consent when we mean working with children and families to engage them in services to come to a shared view of the best way forward and when we are talking about getting formal consent for procedures.
Through the principle of sharing facilities, students may benefit from access to already-available best resources. It has been argued though that in order for facility-sharing to happen, somebody has to be the mediator because universities don’t talk to each other, they are competitors.
The Government made a point of inviting people to talk to it, had the conversations, got an answer that it seemed not to like and then, two weeks later, appeared to have changed its mind.
As politicians, we all have a duty, when we are talking about these things, to ensure that how we talk about them does not inadvertently put women off coming forward.