Policy paper

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 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聽聽from before the amendment is available from The National Archives.

罢丑别听Keeping children safe, helping families thrive聽policy statement outlines the bill鈥檚 measures in further detail.

Updates to this page

Published 18 December 2024
Last updated 21 March 2025 show all updates
  1. Added an updated version of 鈥楥hildren鈥檚 Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024: policy summary notes鈥� to reflect the Bill as amended in the House of Commons. The original version is available on The National Archives.

  2. '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.

  3. First published.

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