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Lord Lucas (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 12 March 2026

Debate

Schools (Recording and Reporting of Seclusion and Restraint) (England) Regulations 2025

Contribution

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her comprehensive reply, much of which I completely agreed with. I take issue with only two points. The first is the restriction of the impact assessment to independent schools. In understanding how regulations work and the effect they will have on the system, and sharing that information with Parliament, surely the policy should be that the coverage should be extended to include state schools, which will bear the great majority of the consequences of these regulations. Not to share that with Parliament, as the committee observed, is surely not the right way of going about things. Secondly, when it comes to data collection, most schools will have this data. Data collection is just a matter of turning a switch or two in the central system so that that data then flows into the governance system, with no extra recording and no extra actions needed beyond adding a few fields to the data already going to government. I really do not understand that that is difficult. However, I am grateful to the Minister and I beg leave to withdraw my Motion.

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