This page is a part of a suite of pages which supplement our main Children’s and Wellbeing and Schools Bill page.
Last updated 16 March 2025
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- Commons Education Committee quizzes experts on CWS Bill | 5 Mar.
- The Most Dangerous Bill Yet – 4 | Minister’s Comments Committee Stage | 18 Feb.
- Lord Frost calls out the Education Blob | 24 Jan.
- The Real Problem with the Problem Bill | 22 Jan.
- The Most Dangerous Bill Yet – 3 | Wellbeing v Welfare | 12 Jan.
- The Most Dangerous Bill Yet – 2 | Data Protection & Single Unique Identifier | 2 Jan.
- The Most Dangerous Bill Yet – 1 | Parliamentary Process | 30 Dec.
Recommended reading and listening from others
Encouraging articles from the wider media
- Phillipson is Letting the Blob Run Rings Around Her | The Daily Sceptic | 7 Mar.
- The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: an attack on home education and parental rights | West Country Voices | 27 Feb.
- Labour wants the state to raise our children | Telegraph / Archive Today [open access] | 13 Feb.
- The problem with Labour’s home-school crackdown | The Spectator / Archive Today [open access] | 11 Feb.
- The Blob Has Sunk to New Depths in Its Quest to Destroy Educational Freedom | The Daily Sceptic | 7 Feb.
- Stop the UK Bill targeting home educators | Voice of the Family | 7 Feb.
- The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: An Attack on Home Education and Parental Rights | The PRSD | 4 Feb.
- Take home education out of detention | Benjamin Sharkey | The Critic Magazine | 25 Jan.
- The state versus the family | Christian Hacking | The Critic Magazine | 23 Jan.
- Letter from the (potential) future – by Daniel Karrasch | Substack | 20 Jan.
- Home-schooling helps us resist indoctrination | Telegraph / Archive Today [open access] | 16 Jan.
Defend Digital ME
- Policy page
- Supplemental Briefing on Wales data extractions and distribution – PDF | May be revised 15 Mar.
- Defend Digital Me proposed amendments, for Report Stage 2025 – PDF | 15 Mar.
- Report Stage Briefing – PDF | 14 Mar.
- Mapping of the non-consensual data collections and flows under this Bill – PDF | Revised 14 Mar.
- Impact Assessment and scrutiny not fit for purpose: the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill so far – PDF | 7 Feb.
- Proposed amendments, Committee Stage 2025 – PDF | 4 Feb
- Defend Digital Me Briefing for Committee Stage – PDF | Undated
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: more questions than answers | 17 Dec.
Reclaim Rights for Children | Rights protect children – home page
- Two Dangerous Bills | Data (Use and Access) Bill / Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill
- Open letter on Data Use and Access Bill | Reclaim Rights for Children | 4 Mar.
Ed Yourself
- Tuesday March 18th Report Stage Bill | post 16 Mar.
- Amendments Abtisam Mohamed Parliament March 18 | post 14 Mar.
- Wellbeing Bill Where’s The Money | page 13 Mar.
- Wellbeing Bill Amendments For Report | post 12 Mar.
- Amendments for Wellbeing Bill 2 | page 11 Mar.
- Amendments for Report 1 | page 11 Mar.
- Parliamentary Questions Wellbeing Bill | page 5 Mar.
- Clause 24 is now 25 | post 12 Feb.
- Bill Committee Evidence January 2025 | page 11 Feb.
- Report Stage Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | post 9 Feb.
- 90 Minutes Home Education 30.1.25 | post 1 Feb.
- Overview Children Not In School Wellbeing Bill | post 25 Jan.
- Children Not In School Bill Committee Dates | post 24 Jan.
- Tight Timing Written Evidence Bill Committee | post 15 Jan.
- Evidence Children’s Wellbeing Bill Committee | post 14 Jan.
- Bill Committee Children’s Wellbeing and Schools | post 9 Jan.
- Second Reading Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill | post 7 Jan.
- Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill – page| 5 Jan.
Resources:
- Easy view spreadsheet of original Clauses 24 to 29 (and Schedule 1 s9) relevant to CNiS registers
No Nationalisation of Our Kids
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill – Update 20 February 2025 | video 21 Feb.
- Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill – Home Education Update – 27 Jan 2025 | video 28 Jan.
- CWS Bill – Submitting Evidence to the Bill Committee | video 13 Jan.
Educational Freedom
- Time to take action to protect home education | 1 March
- Proposed changes to home education law – what you need to do next! | 5 Feb.
- The bill and what you need to be doing about it | 23 Jan.
- Feeling overwhelmed, confused and scared about the proposed children’s wellbeing bill? | 17 Jan.
- 2nd reading of the Children’s wellbeing bill and home education register – what next? | 10 Jan.
- What the heck is happening?? What is the Children’s…. | 2 Jan.
- Special School Deregistration | 1 Jan.
- If it is important to you, it is important to take action | 1 Jan.
- Prison (up to 51 weeks) and fines (up to £2500) | 31 Dec.
- Clause 25! If you have nothing to hide why bury the detail in Secondary Legislation | 31 Dec.
- Have they thought this through? | 30 Dec
- The Bill of many parts, but does not appear to reflect its namesake | 30 Dec.
- 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.