Found: With the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill due to make music a compulsory subject in all schools

Found: Through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, we are introducing corporate parenting responsibilities

Found: the new corporate parenting duty on health partners, contained with the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: Likewise, in the then Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Baroness Kidron had an amendment on AI chatbots

Found: .69 64 Children Act 1989, section 22H as amended by section 5 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: programme, with full national implementation expected by March 2027; the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: programme, with full national implementation expected by March 2027; the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: Non-Domestic Rating (Multiplier and Private Schools) Bill Correspondence from the Minister of State

Found: Peck CBE as Chair of the Office for Students HC 731 2nd Scrutiny of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: Equality Act 2010) Act 2023 18 Closed on 25 October 2025 Withdraw the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: motion “That this House has considered e- petition 722377 relating to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill The Committee considered this matter.

Found: Through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, the Department for Education should introduce legislative

Found: without any legal protection from the government. 9 Barnardo’s (2025) Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: //bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909 [6] Department for Education (2026) Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: : The Government is delivering this manifesto commitment through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill in England (2025) proposes implementing a Single Unique Identifier

Found: The new placeholder for a single unique Digital ID in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is likely

Found: During the passage of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, we committed to consulting on a scheme

Found: Children’s Well-being and Schools Bill – children’s rights statutory duty amendments 21.

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill currently going through Parliament will introduce a new mandate

Found: There is currently a proposed amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools bill that would include

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: an opportunity to strengthen protection for children’s rights

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, if enacted in its current form, will place a duty on local

Found: reliance on these orders, the government has proposed reforms in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill amends s.25 of the Children’s Act to provide a statutory framework

Found: within updated statutory guidance and as a new legal duty within the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: acknowledges that the government is seeking to address this problem in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: should be extended to all children in care who have suffered trauma. the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: .  Clause 22 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill risks excluding immigration functions from

Found: through Parliament.24 We recommend a similar amendment be made to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: When the Government introduced the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, it was important to undertake

Found: peers on the legislative efforts to tackle social media harms in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: Whilst uniform costs and the measures in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill are included in the

Found: coordinating voices across the sector and tabling amendments on targets to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: This duty, as introduced in the proposed Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, can ensure the monitoring

Found: coordinating voices across the sector and tabling amendments on targets to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: This duty, as introduced in the proposed Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, can ensure the monitoring

Found: Whilst uniform costs and the measures in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill are included in the

Found: responsibilities is currently being legislated through the developing Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: peers on the legislative efforts to tackle social media harms in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: to the extension of corporate parenting responsibilities within the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: We broadly welcome the attempts being made in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, to place much

Found: Peck CBE as Chair of the Office for Students HC 731 2nd Scrutiny of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: Peck CBE as Chair of the Office for Students HC 731 2nd Scrutiny of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Falling pupil numbers drive budget pressures for schools, most of whose funding is provided on a per-pupil basis, as facilities and senior staffing costs are relatively static. In 2023/24, 14.7% of local authority-run schools were in debt, up from 7.9% six years earlier. The IfG estimates that empty school places account for almost two-fifths of that rise.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 on the home school register.

Answered by Olivia Bailey

The Children Not in School measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, when implemented, will require local authorities in England and Wales to maintain registers of children who are not in school, including home-educated children.

The department has published impact assessments considering a broad range of impacts of the measures, which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-wellbeing-and-schools-bill-impact-assessments. These include the regulatory impact assessment for the measures which outlines estimated costs to businesses and households. More information on the regulatory impact assessment is available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67dd5d05d8e313b503358c04/Children_Not_in_School.pdf.

We have assessed that the measures will result in new burdens for local authorities. We are currently conducting a full new burdens assessment to establish the exact amount of additional funding required by local authorities in England to fulfil the new duties, including the support duty. Further evidence for this assessment will be gathered through a public consultation ahead of implementation of the measures.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate she has made of the annual cost of the statutory duty introduced in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 to provide support to home-educating families who request it.

Answered by Olivia Bailey

The Children Not in School measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, when implemented, will require local authorities in England and Wales to maintain registers of children who are not in school, including home-educated children.

The department has published impact assessments considering a broad range of impacts of the measures, which can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/childrens-wellbeing-and-schools-bill-impact-assessments. These include the regulatory impact assessment for the measures which outlines estimated costs to businesses and households. More information on the regulatory impact assessment is available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67dd5d05d8e313b503358c04/Children_Not_in_School.pdf.

We have assessed that the measures will result in new burdens for local authorities. We are currently conducting a full new burdens assessment to establish the exact amount of additional funding required by local authorities in England to fulfil the new duties, including the support duty. Further evidence for this assessment will be gathered through a public consultation ahead of implementation of the measures.

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will publish an impact assessment of the provisions in Part 2 (Sections 24–29) of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill; and what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of those provisions on (a) children and young people with Education, Health and Care Plans and (b) children experiencing mental health difficulties.

Answered by Georgia Gould - Minister of State (Education)

The department has published impact assessments considering a broad range of impacts of provisions in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026.

Under the Public Sector Equality Duty, all public authorities, including government departments, must give due regard to equality considerations, including the impact on disabled people.

Found: other organisations) should NOT be recorded. 77 Through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: Through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, all state-funded schools with primary- aged pupils

Found: changes to multi agency working ahead of any legislation changes in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: future iterations will reflect the progress into legislation of the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: changes to multi agency working ahead of any legislation changes in the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is now an Act of Parliament, and a range of important delivery

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, when it passes into law, will extend corporate parenting

Found: Refer to the National Archives for previous versions of the document: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: legislation that have occurred over the parliamentary passage of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: support for Wales’ involvement in the CNIS measures within the then Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: safety policy in schools The allergy safety duties introduced by the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: the National Archives for previous versions of the impact assessments: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: 2024, through the King’s speech, the government committed to deliver a Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: anticipate that this measure in conjunction with other measures within the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools bill

Found: contact in the family courts due to evidence of potential harm, the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (if enacted) would require all academy teachers to have Qualified

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (if enacted) would require all academy teachers to have Qualified

Found: • The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: The child employment clauses in this Bill will amend

Found: • The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: This Bill will introduce measures to ensure children

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Found: 2025 • Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 • Armed Forces Bill • Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: . • The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, to protect children and raise standards in education.

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (if enacted) would require all academy teachers to have Qualified

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill (if enacted) would require all academy teachers to have Qualified

Found: MoJ, DfE and DHSC should use the opportunities presented by the new Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, when it passes into law, will extend corporate parenting

Found: The Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Bill will extend the existing duty on maintained schools

Found: The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is now an Act of Parliament, and a range of important delivery

Found: Background The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill was introduced to Parliament in December 2024 and