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CWS Bill – Resources Page

This page is a part of a suite of pages which supplement our main Children’s and Wellbeing and Schools Bill page.

Last updated 15 March 2025

Flowcharts of the Bill’s stages in both houses. Click an image below to view and download each chart as a Portable Network Graphics (.png) file, or download an easy print PDF file of both.

If you require a simple introduction to help you explain key points in the Bill which will affect HE children and their families to family, friends and even your MP (& local Councillor), you will find this two page briefing helpful. It has been written by a HE parent, and is shared with their permission. We suggest it will be more effective if you use your own words and story, rather than simply forwarding MPs a copy.

Downloadable Clause Tables

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.

Please note: These tables use the Clause numbers in the original Bill when it was first published. The Bill was updated following the Committee Stage and a new clause had been added as Clause 9. Consequently, the clauses in the tables provided need the clause numbers increasing by one – i.e. Clause 24 is now 25, 25 now 26, and so on.

These tables have three columns as illustrated below:

Sample from a CWS Bill tabes

The contents of each column are as follows:

  1. Current: The wording of the Education Act 1996 as it stands at present;
  2. Proposed additions: New wording which will be inserted into the Education Act if the Bill is passed in its current form;
  3. 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 columns 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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