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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 September 2025
Debate
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillContribution
“At present, resources for testing children’s communication, language, literacy and early mathematics skills … are admirably and straightforwardly consistent with a play-based approach to early years, an approach underpinned by decades of pedagogical research stressing the centrality of play in building cognitive, social, and emotional skills”.
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