In an essay for 4Children, he says that there needs to be ‘a rebalancing’ of the role between the state and family, arguing that the state should be there to support families ‘not supplant them’.
The State are Children are in is the last is a series of five essays written to celebrate the children’s charity’s 30th anniversary.
The MP notes that in the past 25 years there have been 100 separate Acts of Parliament to do with children.
Mr Loughton says he sees the role of the state as being there ‘to serve, to enable, to promote the family, not to stifle it, nor to direct or supplant, other than those severe cases where neglect or cruelty harms children.’
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