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Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 February 2026

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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

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On the second point, I said that schools are able to purchase their own spares. Many do so, but I said that our statutory guidance will be clear that we expect schools to do so. The statutory guidance will say that schools should have those spares. On the point about funding, no, I am not saying that there will be centrally provided funding. I was identifying, by talking about both the cost to schools of buying the adrenaline auto-injectors from high street pharmacies, for example, and the ongoing work with the Department of Health and Social Care, how we will ensure that, by schools using their funding, as half have already done, those auto-injectors are available as cheaply and easily as possible. I just reiterate, though, that I did say that training would be part of the statutory guidance, as well as an expectation that that training happens across the school. On that basis, I hope noble Lords will feel reassured and that the noble Baroness will feel able to withdraw her amendment.
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