Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary
Information on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Applies to England
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The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill aims to change the law to better protect children and raise standards in education. The bill and its supporting documents are available on the UK Parliament website.
A regulatory and equalities impact assessment is available.
The policy summary contains information on the measures within the bill. It sets out:
- what the government aims to achieve through each measure
- why we need the legislation
- effects of the legislation
- how the legislation will work in practice
A version of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes from before the amendment is available from The National Archives.
The Keeping children safe, helping families thrive policy statement outlines the bill’s measures in further detail.
Updates to this page
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Added an updated version of ‘Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes’ to reflect the Bill as amended in the House of Commons. The original version is available on The National Archives.
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'Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes' updated with information on the government amendment tabled on 28 January regarding the teacher pay measure.
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First published.