A Bill to increase the maximum custodial sentence for the offences of child cruelty and causing or allowing a child or vulnerable adult to die or suffer serious physical harm to imprisonment for life; and for connected purposes.
This Bill would raise the maximum prison sentence for offences of child cruelty and for causing or allowing a child or vulnerable adult to die or suffer serious physical harm to life imprisonment. It also applies to related offences under the same policy.
The bill is at the 2nd reading in the Commons. After this stage it would typically proceed to committee scrutiny, then continue through the remaining stages before potentially moving to the Lords.
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