Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024

Page last updated: 28 March 2025

Next Event: Lords Second Reading | 1 May

Speakers List: Government Whips’ Office – Print style | Lords Calendar – links to speakers’ information on Parliament’s website

Previous Event: Lords First Reading | 19 March | No debate – Parliament TV (30 second watch), Hansard entry

Prior Event: 17 & 18 March | Commons Remaining Stages [Report Stage & Third Reading]

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Though the Commons Bill Committee is no longer in existence, our Committee Stage (Commons) page has details of its membership and when its sessions were held.

Links to the transcripts of all past sessions can be found on either Parallel Parliament’s page or the main page’s Publications tab.

Parliament TV recordings of every session can be located through this search term – results are not returned in date order, and most from the Commons Committee stage are audio only.

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Official Parliamentary pages

The Bill’s Home Page | other tabs: Publications; Stages; News.

Direct links to key PDF documents listed on the Publications tab:

• HL Bill 84 Explanatory Notes – Revised 20 Mar.
• Delegated Powers Memorandum – Revised 20 Mar.
• European Convention on Human Rights Memorandum – Revised 19 Mar.
• HL Bill 84 (as brought from the Commons) – 19 Mar.
• Scrutiny of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – Bill Committee Report – 28 Feb.
• Bill 177 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee) – 12 Feb.
• Bill 177 2024-25 (as amended in Public Bill Committee) – 12 Feb. large print
• Bill 151 2024-25 (as introduced)
• Bill 151 2024-25 (as introduced) – large print
• Explanatory Notes: Bill 151 EN 2024-25
• Explanatory Notes: Bill 151 EN 2024-25 – large print
• Delegated Powers Memorandum: Memorandum from the Department for Education to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
• Human rights memorandum: European Convention on Human Rights Memorandum
• Impact Assessment from the Department for Education | 30 Jan.
• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Impact assessment – Regulatory Policy Committee opinion – GOV.UK | 3 Feb.

Videos of all session which consider the Bill can be found by using this search term.

Department for Education Publications

• Final Stage Impact Assessments | Revised 21 Mar
• Legislation breaks down barriers to opportunity for all children | Press release | 17 Dec.
• The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: what parents need to know – The Education Hub | 17 Dec.
• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary [page] | Direct link to PDF | 18 Dec.
• Children’s bill to keep children safe from exploitation | Press release | 8 Jan.
• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: impact assessments | Ten additional Impact Assessments | 30 Jan.
  • Selected items from above page
  • 1 – Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: regulatory impact assessment
  • 5 – Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessment
  • 6 – Strengthening Regulation of Independent Educational Institutions – regulatory impact assessment
  • 10 – Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: equalities impact assessment
  • 11 – Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: child’s rights impact assessment | Added 17 March • Relevant to home ed

Parliamentary Research Briefings

The House of Commons Library is a branch of Parliament, not the Government. It is a research and information service based in the UK Parliament. One of its responsibilities is to produce briefings for MPs on matters before Parliament or those which may be raised by their constituents. These are read by MPs and their staff so they can be ‘informed’ about matters they are unfamiliar with. These briefings should not be mistaken for “statements from the Government;” they are written by journalist-researchers, and express their own understanding of any matter.

• Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25: progress of the bill | 4 Mar
  Direct link to full report | PDF 38 pages
• Research Briefing – Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25 | 3 Jan
  Direct link to full report | PDF 152 pages

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is a research and knowledge exchange service based in the UK Parliament. It works to ensure that the best available research evidence and information is brought to bear on the legislative process and scrutiny of Government. It primarily supports the select committees of both Houses.

• Children”s wellbeing in schools – POST | 6 Feb.