Parenting
Normally in the Assembly, we are lucky if we get five minutes to speak in a debate. This week, however, I have won the ballot for the weekly ‘short debate’, and this gives me the opportunity to speak for fifteen minutes on a subject of my choice. I have decided to focus on the question of parenting. So many of the issues that concern us in schools and in the community come back to issues of parental responsibility. Support for parents with young children, including childcare, is obviously key to that. I will have more to say on this in due course….