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Justice Committee, Official Report 27 November 2018, col. 14. Mary Glasgow, representing Children 1st, also stressed that:
Children want a relationship with a person who can walk through the process with them and support them from the moment they talk about what has happened right the way through to the process’s conclusion.
Children 1st also argued that elements of the Barnahus could be implemented immediately, with Mary Glasgow telling the Committee:
We could have resources that mean that all the professionals are based in one place and that children go there to get all their needs met - evidence is pre-recorded and goes to court.
Some submissions called for a specific role for an individual responsible for public engagement within each IA. In its written submission Marie Curie suggested it had been considerably easier to engage with those IAs where the IA had appointed staff with stakeholder engagement in their remit and titles.
On Jeremy Balfour’s amendment 323 and Mary Fee’s related amendment 323A, I echo the minister’s remarks and commend Jeremy Balfour and Mary Fee for those amendments.