Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary
Information on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
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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
Refer to the National Archives for previous versions of the document:
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes (as amended in the House of Commons)
- Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes
The Keeping children safe, helping families thrive policy statement outlines the bill’s measures in further detail.