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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 28 January 2026

Debate

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Contribution

120A: At end insert— “(4A) Condition B does not apply to a child who has been adopted, if the action specified in subsection (4)(b) occurred before the child was adopted.”Member's explanatory statement This amendment seeks to ensure that parents are not required to receive local authority consent to withdraw adopted children from school if action was taken under section 47(8) of the Children Act 1989 in respect of the child before they were adopted.

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