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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 September 2025

Debate

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Contribution

“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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