Introduced in the House of Commons, 17 December 2024
For following the progress of the Bill we recommend Parallel Parliament’s CW&S Bill page.
Unlike Parliament’s own website, links to all the relevant documents are displayed in a single list. The “Timeline of Bill Documents and Stages” is ordered with the most recent publication at the top. Above that is a “Latest Key documents” section, which saves searching for more recent publications.
Page last updated: 28 December 2024
Next Event: 8th January 2025 | Second reading (Commons)
Official Parliamentary pages
The Bill’s Home Page | other tabs: Publications; Stages; News.
Direct links to key PDF documents listed on the Publications tab:
- 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
Department for Education Publications
- Legislation breaks down barriers to opportunity for all children | Press release
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary [page] | Direct link to PDF
- The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: what parents need to know – The Education Hub
Resources to help you
To help you make your own notes on the contents of the Bill and the proposed changes to existing legislation, a friend of the Byte team has created tables based on clauses 24-29 in the Bill and other documents which are directly relevant to elective home education. [N.B. Other clauses worth noting include “Independent educational institutions” (30-37) and “Information sharing and consistent identifiers” (4).] The tables are available in 3 formats [Word, Open Document, PDF] with separate ones for each clause. See the bottom of this page for download options, along with further information.
Recommended reading
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- More data is not the answer | 28 Dec.
- It is not about a CHILD’S RIGHT to EDUCATION | 22 Dec.
- Home must always be a child’s safe space | 22 Dec.
- Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill | 20 Dec.
- Erosion of Parental Responsibility by the Backdoor | 19 Dec.
- The proposed children’s wellbeing bill including home education changes | 18 Dec.
- Don’t panic – take action – the home education fight against the Children’s wellbeing bill | 17 Dec.
Downloadable Clause Tables
These tables have three columns as illustrated below:
The contents of each column are as follows:
- Current: The wording of the Education Act 1996 as it stands at present;
- Proposed additions: New wording which will be inserted into the Education Act if the Bill is passed in its current form;
- Notes: Most of these sections are blank for your own notes, but where the compiler has spotted something important in the accompaning documents, as above, they have provided comments to draw your attention to those sections.
The three download colums below contain files as per the column heading, the exception being the top item which are .zip files containing every file listed in that particular format.
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