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Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

The Department for Education is progressing the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which introduces new provisions affecting local authorities, parents, and home-educated children. The bill includes requirements for local authority home visits and parental engagement mechanisms, with outstanding questions regarding enforcement, cost implications, and parental sanctions. Current status involves parliamentary scrutiny and cost assessments.

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7 Jan 2026 | Impact assessment Department for Education linked

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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↓ Children’s Social Care Financial Oversight Scheme: regulato… (38pp) ↓ Children’s Social Care Provider Oversight Regime: regulator… (18pp) ↓ Children’s Social Care Profit Cap: regulatory impact assess… (20pp) ↓ Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessm… (38pp) ↓ Strengthening Regulation of Independent Educational Institu… (79pp) ↓ Teacher Misconduct: regulatory impact assessment (as amende… (36pp) ↓ Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – non-regulatory impa… (89pp) ↓ Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – non-regulatory impa… (81pp) ↓ Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: equality impact asse… (76pp) ↓ Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: child’s rights impac… (83pp)
28 Feb 2025 | Memorandum linked

We recommend that the Government undertakes to follow the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation and engage meaningfully, and in a timely way, with select committees as a way of improving policy making and building consensus on important legislation. We further recommend that the Government provide a memorandum to the Liaison Committee demonstrating how it plans to engage with select committees on legislation over the Parliament. (Recommendation, Paragraph 12) 26

We recommend that the Government undertakes to follow the Cabinet Office Guide to Making Legislation and engage meaningfully, and in a timely way, with select committees as a way of improving policy making and building consensus on important legislation. We …

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