With budgets squeezed, the local authorities whose responsibility it is to look after children in need are not always quick to do so, or to make sure that housing officers, family doctors and others know they are supposed to as well.

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Of course, there is always the possibility that those who are so quick to criticize a bill they have not even seen yet may not be interested in solutions at all.

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