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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 18 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Spielman (Con - Life peer) in which children in Scotland and Wales are doing better than children in England and easy to find ways - Speech Link
2: None children with a core guarantee of quality education and to ensure that safeguards are in place for all - Speech Link
3: None off the scale and how grateful they are for the opportunity to engage in that space. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hampton (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The primary school that both my children were at and the school where I now teach are full for before-school - Speech Link
5: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) That is now all for naught, because there are other ways of cheating, and AI helps that considerably.I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) For now, I note that, via anti-bullying initiatives in schools already, pupils are taught that words - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) It is estimated that there are almost 200,000 children with a parent in prison in England and Wales, - Speech Link
3: Earl of Effingham (Con - Excepted Hereditary) That may well be achieved in different ways —for some children, through home schooling, and for others - Speech Link
4: Baroness Grey-Thompson (XB - Life peer) I do not think that we have got right the support that disabled children are getting in school, and we - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) One in five children in the UK are now identified as having SEND needs, and the number of education, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None resource and time in enforcing fines that are not being paid. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) What children not in school registers are about is ensuring that the education is suitable and children - Speech Link
3: None The contention of the Haredi community is that their children are home-educated and that, in addition - Speech Link
4: None All they are asking is for a pause in this, so that they can express their anxieties and their fears - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) children learn in safe and regulated settings, that illegal schools either register or are closed down - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) that our children who are not at school are properly cared for. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) children, but we must remember that there is a huge level of oversight for where and what children are - Speech Link
3: None home education, and that we are clear that school for the vast majority of children is the best place - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (Con - Excepted Hereditary) children whom we need to cover, and that means that there are children going through the system for - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) in England and Wales, and the lack of any such service for asylum-seeking children here, means that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) to three in 10 in 2023, and almost four in 10 this year. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jenkin of Kennington (Con - Life peer) Furthermore, research indicates that one in four children and young people are using smartphones in a - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) As of March this year, the Act’s illegal content duties are in force, meaning that children are already - Speech Link
5: None packed in to 10 months of the school year and we have a duty to make sure children are ready for school - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 01 May 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) are and that their education is safe and suitable.When care is necessary, it must work for children - Speech Link
2: Baroness Shephard of Northwold (Con - Life peer) that they are not in the classroom and heads and teachers are. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) I am sure that that will be important for our debates in this House, and we are all very glad that he - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill (Fourteenth sitting)
Committee stage: 14th Sitting - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Stephen Morgan (Lab - Portsmouth South) the responsibilities and know how important it is that children are in school. - Speech Link
2: Ellie Chowns (Green - North Herefordshire) Although there are strong arguments for banning them in school—and I recognise that there is a strong - Speech Link
3: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) for anybody in their school; there are exemptions, and they could decide that that is what they need - Speech Link
4: Amanda Martin (Lab - Portsmouth North) mobile phone use in schools so that we can teach digital wellness now and for the future. - Speech Link
5: None policy that works in context and keeps children and young people safe. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) There are significant parts of it—relating to the children not in school register and illegal schools—that - Speech Link
2: None There are other amendments that I want to speak to, but I will stick with Amendment 64B for now and tie - Speech Link
3: Lord Wei (CON - Life peer) human rights obligations—bear in mind that concerns are raised in that report that Articles 8 and 9 - Speech Link
4: None Additionally, schools are expected to ensure that pastoral care is in place for pupils who need it and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Schools Bill [HL]
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 20 Jun 2022
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) that some jobs are boys’ jobs and some are for girls. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morris of Yardley (LAB - Life peer) , they can do that now with almost all the curriculum materials that are taught in schools and they do - Speech Link
3: Lord Knight of Weymouth (LAB - Life peer) to send their children to school are colluding in some kind of truancy—and that is informing quite a - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) because many children who are in school and in plain sight are missed by social services and the authorities - Speech Link
5: Baroness Barran (CON - Life peer) They are for all those children who are not in school full-time. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Skills and Post-16 Education Bill [HL]
Report stage - Tue 12 Oct 2021
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) There are also networks based in BEIS and in the Department for Work and Pensions. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LDEM - Life peer) GCSE English and maths are academic and are absolutely not appropriate for a whole load of people whose - Speech Link
3: None hold a GCSE grade 4 to 9 in their English and maths. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) hope I am right in quoting the Government as saying that T-levels are the best option for 16 to 19 year-olds - Speech Link
5: None We learned that T-levels are not remotely suitable for people who get GCSE grades of 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 - Speech Link