00:02A government member of the Legislative Scrutiny Committee
00:05unshackled after a child protection inquiry.
00:09That moral compass is really important to me
00:13and as a member of parliament, yeah, I want to defend it
00:18and I want to defend our children.
00:19The former residential care youth worker claiming moral bankruptcy
00:24on the part of some opposing the government's reforms.
00:27Some of these kind of debates around culture being protection
00:34and protection being culture I think has taken the child out of the centre.
00:39While the bill received some support including from foster carers,
00:43most witnesses opposed with tears shed over the impact on kids removed from culture
00:50and an argument made that safety already is the paramount consideration under current laws.
00:56It's not working and that's what I'd say.
00:59It doesn't actually state that the safety of the child is paramount.
01:04Clinton Howe also backing in the proposed two-year limit on reunification efforts,
01:10pointing to the case of a child taken into foster care at age zero
01:14before being reunified five years later.
01:17So that child's been taken out of the home that they've only ever known
01:21and then placed in a community where abuse has then occurred in the reunification attempt
01:26and has then been brought back to their family here in town.
01:31The case study hitting home.
01:34That individual was the same age as one of my daughters
01:37and to think her just being pulled out of our home,
01:41suffering abuse and then being brought back
01:43and then for a reunification attempt to happen five years later at ten
01:47for it to be failed again.
01:49And I think that is the system creating a very unfair situation for the child.
01:57The parliament will likely pass the bill due to the government's majority
02:01when it returns next week.
02:08One minute to remember what they were saying.
02:08Let's see.
02:09Menal's actions have been violated.
02:09That's the reason why they were told by the family
02:09the child dog was apparently possessed.
02:10He was sometimes in a lonely group of people with people with a child
02:10and he was the only ones in the family that took care of their children
02:10and he was marginalized by the child.
02:11This is why.
02:11The child's child's wife is not a child alone.
02:12He was the child's wife,
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