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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 September 2025
Debate
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillContribution
Bizarrely enough, if you look at the cohort studies of people throughout their lives and ask what the best predictor is of someone having a worthwhile, highly satisfying life on their own terms and self-identifying as such, you see that it is their well-being as a child, not their income level or exam results. These things matter hugely. If we get this right, it will be the most important thing we have done in this Bill, but, at the moment, there is no measurement.
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