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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Report of Experiences of Parent Carers of Disabled Children and Adults Across Wales
Do read this excellent research paper, by Clare Lucignoli, just published: To learn more about systems-generated trauma, And to appreciate that LAs cannot be guaranteed to act in a child’s “best interest”. Note – this research project investigated the experiences of families where education is provided by the state. Key points include: • 84% of…
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Trigger warning – suicides of children – consequences of keeping children where their needs are not met
Politicising or weaponizing the deaths of children is never acceptable. There are no words to describe the utter tragedy behind every single one of the cases in this article in the Times. But it is so important to allow just the tiniest glimpse into why, when we say that it is dangerous to keep children…
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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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Lack of Due Scrutiny of the CWS Bill from the Perspective of the Senedd and the People of Wales
The people of Wales were denied the right to engage with their MPs to make representations for them when the Bill was at the House of Commons, as the Bill was progressed there as an England-only Bill. More on that on a separate article on the lack of due scrutiny and haste in progression of…
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Has Westminster Rushed This CWS Bill?
Has Westminster given due scrutiny to such a wide-reaching, complex and controversial Bill? Let’s track the progress at Westminster so far.
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Where are the Impact Assessments? LACK of impact assessments for the CWS Bill in Wales
So – a week after the Senedd were expected to vote on applying key clauses of the CWS Bill to Wales, only 3 weeks till the deferred date for this vote, And – no impact assessments of any kind are available on how these measures would impact the children of Wales. Nor on how it would…
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Beginner’s Guide to the Children Not in School (CNIS) Clauses of the CWS Bill that Welsh Government want applied to Wales
(CWS Bill – the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill) Bill itself as it stands on 5.2.26 – view here 39 – LA consent for withdrawal of certain children from school 434A – LA consent for withdrawal of certain children from school Even if just on a CIN plan- 434B – Mandatory LA meetings prior to…
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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…
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