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Impact Assessment Published 7 Jan 2026 Department for Education ↗ View on GOV.UK

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: impact assessments

Impact assessments of the measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

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The impact assessments include:

  • a bill-level impact assessment, which is a summary of the individual-measure impact assessments – this reflects the bill as amended in the House of Commons
  • 6 impact assessments for ‘regulatory provisions’ measures in line with the Regulatory Policy Committee’s Better Regulation Framework guidance – this reflects the 4 ‘regulatory provisions’ in the bill as amended in the House of Commons (the remaining 2 were not amended)
  • 2 impact assessments for 32 measures across children’s social care and schools that are not ‘regulatory provisions’, with analysis of their expected impacts – this reflects the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage
  • a bill-level equalities impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures on protected characteristics, required by the public sector equality duty – this reflects the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage
  • a bill-level child’s rights impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures against the UN Convention on Rights of a Child (UNCRC) – this reflects the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage

Versions of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: impact assessments from before the amendment are available in the National Archives.