Children鈥檚 Wellbeing and Schools Bill: Impact assessment - RPC opinion (green-rated)
Regulatory Policy Committee opinion on the Department for Education鈥檚 impact assessment (IA) in respect of the Children鈥檚 Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
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The Bill makes provision about: 聽the safeguarding and welfare of children; 聽support for children in, or leaving, care; 聽regulation of care workers, and of establishments and agencies under Part 2 of the Care Standards Act 2000; 聽employment of children; 聽breakfast club provision and school uniform; 聽attendance of children at school; 聽regulation of independent educational institutions; 聽inspections of schools and colleges; 聽teacher misconduct; 聽academies and teachers at academies; 聽school places and admissions; 聽establishing new schools;聽 and repealing section 128 of the Education Act 2002.
The Department has defined six measures in the Bill as regulatory provisions, as these relate to business activity, in line with the definition of a regulatory provision in the Better Regulation Framework guidance. The RPC opinion focused its scrutiny on these.
The regulatory provisions present a varying range of options in the individual IAs, including do-minimum, non-regulatory and other viable alternative options.聽 The summary IA estimates that the implementation of the regulatory provisions arising from primary and related secondary legislation will result in a total equivalent annual net direct cost to business of 拢1 million, with a net present social value of -拢47 million. 聽These impacts include familiarisation costs, administrative costs and reporting costs, which will be borne by independent schools, online educational providers and businesses in the children鈥檚 social care sector. The IAs provide a sufficient SaMBA as there are minimal burdens faced by business as a result of the regulation, and exemption would run contrary to the safeguarding objectives of the measures. Full details can be found in the opinion鈥檚 annex.
The relevant impact assessment can be found .