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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 May 2025

Debate

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Contribution

Amendment 56 references the points I have just made about who will be in control of this data and who will be allowed access to the system. How will we know that they are using this properly? What will be the consequences? How will errors be caught and so on? The pilot referred to earlier will no doubt throw up some of these answers, but I would be grateful to understand some of the answers to these questions. There is a question at the bottom, in proposed new paragraph (g), on what happens when a child reaches 18. If, in this context, we use an NHS number, those records will presumably continue. Has that been thought through? What other mechanisms will there be to protect the child from identification in respect of other diagnoses carrying into adulthood and being accessed in other contexts?

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