Education and Skills Bill

Part of the debate – in a Public Bill Committee am 10:58 am ar 22 Ionawr 2008.

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Martina Milburn : Yes. I have three teenagers myself. Sometimes compulsion is very useful. I think that, on the whole, we all work it out and get there somehow or another. As Martin said, most of us do it because we have great support from our families and our schools. How do you replace that? I know that you probably think that I am being very woolly, but I do not know exactly how you do that. I do not think that there is some kind of great answer where you can say that if we removed this and we just dealt with the difficult ones then life would be fantastic. I think that being a teenager is a challenge—perhaps being a parent of teenagers is more challenging, I do not know. I do not have an issue with getting young people into training,  education or employment; it is what we should be doing as a society. This is about how we do it, so that it makes the situation better and not worse.