Category: CWS Bill
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Safe to give Welsh LAs far greater powers over families? Or is there already evidence of overstepping and inappropriate use of existing ones?

Sadly, there is considerable evidence for the latter, for those willing to look and evaluate (1 ) See this report on highly disproportionate and excessive use of legal proceedings against home educating families, with two Welsh LAs among the “worst ten” of the UK. (2 ) See this survey of the information available in…
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The Full Story? Misleading facets of the latest WG statement on the CWS Bill

It has come to our attention that the Welsh Government (WG) have in February of this year published on their website a justification of their attempt to “piggyback” onto Westminster’s Children’s Wellbeing and School (CWS) Bill. This statement as come to our attention only now, and only though the diligence of caring families in Wales,…
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Reliability of Information Provided by Welsh LAs on EHE

Part A – Information Available in the Public Domain via Council Websites March 2026 It is hoped that this initial evaluation of the reliability of information provided by LAs about EHE will be of use in informing the debate of consideration of application of Children Not in School (CNIS) sections of Westminster’s Children’s Wellbeing and…
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Have Westminster forgotten about us in their CWS Bill?

It would appear so, in a remarkable oversight… Further grounds to consider that Wales shouldn’t be relying on England to legislate for us on a devolved matter? Amendment 121a, put forward in the House of Lords, isn’t only controversial because of the content. A key component of it quotes and relies on section 17 of…
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What do mainstream media articles tell us about how the Government and council staff view families?

And do such articles reveal anything of what they want US, the reader, to think? You may well have come across yet another article about home education in the media today. Home education has been a “thing” for, essentially, as long as people have had children. So, has it struck you as strange that all…
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Evaluation and rebuttal of Welsh Government’s present justification of Westminster’s CWS Bill.

The Welsh Government are pursuing Senedd permission to apply key clauses of Westminster’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools (CWS) Bill to Wales, even though this would mean the Senedd asking Westminster to legislate for Wales on devolved issues. The Welsh Government has produced a standardised generic copy and paste response to enquiries, that attempts to justify…
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Legal challenges to the CWS Bill

The British Rabbinical Union has announced its intention and plan to launch a judicial review of the CWS Bill upon reaching Royal Assent. The reasons and basis are give here: And their KC opinion can be found here: It is worth noting that their legal challenge reflects their particular experiences and areas of concerns. Other…
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The innate and damaging conflict of trying to apply standardised measures of progression in the educational approaches often used by home educators

For example, approaches that allow and encourage children to develop along their own individual developmental trajectory rather than place pressure to conform to statistically derived or externally imposed expected outcomes and levels. Approaches that purposefully avoid a “teach-to-a-test/grade” standardised approach, believing this to be detrimental and inhibitory to true and deeper learning. Testing and measuring…
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The Actual Reason For The CWS Bill? – The Prime Minister Explains

Welsh Labour claim the reason for the CWS Bill is “safeguarding”. Child protection. But that is not what the Prime Minister says is the reason for the Bill that was constructed and written by his government at Westminster. According to the Prime Minister, his government at Westminster’s reasons for the CWS Bill are social engineering…






