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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"I support the point that has just been made, which is perfectly valid. Some of the elements of the troubled families programme could be used for school home support for children persistently absent from school. I invite the Minister to look at that, because some of the issues with children …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 306 in the name of my noble friend Lady Barran. Given that this country has the joint lightest-touch approach in Europe in relation to the oversight of home education, I would have thought this is a no-brainer to enable us to understand more …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, I fully understand the Government’s desire to limit the cost here, but I support the principle behind most of these amendments, particularly those of my noble friend Lord Agnew and the noble Lord, Lord Hampton. The noble Lord, Lord Hampton, made an excellent point, which was supported by …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"So if the shirt provided by the school is blue and the opposition plays in red, and this has all been arranged in advance, and some pupils decide to be difficult and turn up in red, which will create chaos, that is okay, but if you say “You’ve all got …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, my Amendment 279 would allow local authorities to inspect the materials being used in the child’s home education and to see the child’s work. I also support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Meston. I strongly support the Government’s measures in relation to home …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My amendment also says

“to see the child’s work”.

As those of us in schools know, seeing a child’s books is one of the best ways of finding out whether they are being properly taught. It may be that the home educators are educating their children in a particular way …..."

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 03 Jul 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"On the figure of 30,000, the Education Policy Institute, of which I was a trustee until relatively recently, estimated by comparing GP registrations with school registration and home education data that in 2023 there was a gap of 300,000 children—and that was not accounting for home-educated children...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"My Lords, my Amendment 177 seeks to ban access to social media before the age of 16. Other amendments in this group relate to screens in schools, edtech, and the use and possession of smartphones in schools. I refer to my interests in the register, particularly the fact that I …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 23 Jun 2025
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

"I understand that entirely. I understand that there will be two devices, on one of which the teacher will have to log the responses. The pupil will sometimes use a hard copy, but they will have to touch a screen for some of the tests. So we will be bringing …..."
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