Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: impact assessments
Impact assessments of the measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Applies to England
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The impact assessments include:
- a bill-level impact assessment, which is a summary of the individual measure impact assessments
- 6 impact assessments for ‘regulatory provisions’ measures in line with the Regulatory Policy Committee’s
(RPC’s)Better Regulation Framework guidance - 2 impact assessments for 27 measures across children’s social care and schools that are not ‘regulatory provisions’, with analysis of their expected impacts
- a bill-level equalities impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures on protected characteristics, required by the public sector equality duty
- a bill-level child rights impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures against the UN Convention on Rights of a Child (UNCRC)
Updates to this page
Published 30 January 2025Last updated 17 March 2025 + show all updates
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Added 'Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: child’s rights impact assessment'.
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First published.
Update history
2026-01-07 19:04
Added updated versions of the following documents to reflect new government measures tabled to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill at Lords report stage: ‘Non-regulatory impact assessment: children’s social care measures’, ‘Non-regulatory impact assessment: schools measures’, ‘Equality impact assessment’ and ‘Child’s rights impact assessment’.
2025-03-21 13:06
Added updated versions of the documents to reflect the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill as amended in the House of Commons. The original versions are available on The National Archives.
2025-03-17 09:07
Added ‘Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: child’s rights impact assessment’.
2025-01-30 16:30
First published.