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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 September 2025

Debate

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Contribution

This is modest, but it is the most important thing of all. I am not going to give up on this. The Minister has very kindly talked to me about it and the department has come up with some pretty half-hearted measures that do not actually solve the problem. We need a consistent definition. Some 60% of schools are doing something on this, but, bizarrely, they are all doing their own thing. The net result is that they all have different definitions and the data that they are coming up with is completely worthless. We cannot compare it, analyse it or do proper research with it, so we are stuck in this stupid world where we are wasting a lot of money.

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