This page is a part of a suite of pages which supplement our main Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill page.
Last updated 15 June 2025
Planned events
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Cardiff | Sunday 29 June
March leaves at 1:00pm from Cenral Square (by Central Railway Station).
Rally at Harbour Drive next to the Senedd 1:30pm till 4:00pm
Multicity Protests | 13th July 2pm till 5pm
More information via the Stop the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Facebook page
Previous events
Westminster | Sunday 18 May
After several weeks of planning, home educating families joined with others concerned about the provisions in the Bill and the damaging consequences for a very large number of children. The march began in Whitehall and circled round to Parliament Square via the Embankment. For two hours, speaker after speaker warned of the significant dangers to be found in this wide-ranging Bill.
The whole event was live streamed – the video starts with the first speaker, so please go back to the start if you want to view the march. N.B. due to this being a recording of a live stream, there are moments when the video stalls briefly – hold tight, they don’t last long!
Because there was common ground with school leaders’ concerns about the Bill, the presence of a high profile headteacher attracted the attention of the wider media and very quickly articles appeared in the press.
Here is a selection – not all are about one person’s views.
- Families unite to oppose the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | The Home Ed Daily | 28 May
- Children protest ‘most dangerous piece of legislation in 30 years’ | London Daily News | 26 May
- Bridget Phillipson’s education Bill is an abuse of state power | The Telegraph | 19 May
- Protesters march on Downing Street to oppose Government’s ‘insane’ Schools Bill | LBC | 18 May
- Protesters rally against Government’s ‘insane’ Schools Bill | The Independent | 18 May
- Protesters rally against Government’s ‘insane’ Schools Bill | The Standard | 18 May
Multicity | Saturday 8 March
Protests by home educating families against the Bill were held in six English cities – this video brings them together.
HIDDEN VOICES SPEAK: An Anthology of views on Home Education
On the 8th of March 2025 Home Educators and Children’s Rights groups gathered in Parliament Square and at rallies around the country to protest the current state of the government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. In its current state, the Bill risks causing harm to 1000s of home educating children and STILL does nothing like enough to protect those children who, like Sara Sharif and Victoria Climbie before her, are being failed, sometimes fatally, every day by the very systems designed to protect them.
The children made wonderful, articulate banners expressing their views. Some took to the microphone to address the crowds, and afterwards, one child said that it would be nice to be able to write down the way he felt in a way that people would actually read and to have the space to explain himself and why he loves his life the way it is. Lots of other children felt the same, and so the idea of creating a book was born.
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