Home education under attack, STILL!
20/3/25 This week the Children’s wellbeing and schools bill moved to the house of Lords, with parliament having its last discussion, you can view the highlights and shocking low lights…
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Hopefully, you and your MP are friends now. If your MP is Abtisam Mohamed, please thank them for listening and tabling some amendments to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. If your MP is any other MP, please contact them ASAP and request that your MP supports the amendments. This is our last opportunity to get a change to the bill while it is still in the House of Commons. To check out the proposed amendments see from pg 11 to pg 15 https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/publications but as you are contacting your MP anyway definitely ask for support on the amendments that affect home education, but there is no harm in asking them to also support NC10 by Munira requesting "Establishment of a National Body for SEND"
It is not time to slow down the momentum in talking to your MPs, as the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill still has a week in the House of Commons before moving to the House of Lords. Meanwhile, The Data (Use and Access) Bill is clearing the House of Lords and moving to the House of Commons. Either Bill becoming law will be harmful to our children's rights but how they interact with each other if both pass unamended is even scarier. So please go back to your MP and reiterate your reasons against the CWS bill. Also, ask them to properly scrutinise the Data(Use and Access) Bill as it reaches them. You can attach the open letter that Educational Freedom is a signatory to and ask your MP to table questions for the minister. https://rightsforchildren.uk/open-letter-on-data-use-and-access-bill/
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