6. Welsh Conservatives Debate: Looked-after Children

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:16 pm on 4 March 2020.

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Photo of David Rowlands David Rowlands UKIP 5:16, 4 March 2020

Well, I'm not sure that that would happen. We have to have a situation where there's an acknowledgement of the fact that family courts sitting in secret is wrong. When I was a magistrate, I could instruct all journalists in a court—I could give reporting restrictions on those journalists. I see no reason why those restrictions can't be applied to family courts. I appreciate the fact that we shouldn't have the general public in family courts, but why not journalists to make sure that there is some scrutiny of what goes on? I think it's appalling that there isn't.