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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 16 September 2025

Debate

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Contribution

Finally, this issue of well-being is so important. I found the contribution of the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, inspiring. It made me think. The noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, is right: we celebrate, or we used to celebrate, how we have climbed up the PISA tables for maths and English, or literacy and numeracy. But there is no mention of the fact that we have declined in terms of children’s well-being, which seems wrong to me. I hope that the pitch that the noble Lord, Lord Moynihan, gave the Minister about how this would be a brave career move for her resonated with her and we might see some movement on this.

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