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Change description : 2026-01-07 19:04:00: 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’. [Policy papers and consultations]

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Impact assessment

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: impact assessments

Impact assessments of the measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

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Department for Education
Published
30 January 2025
Last updated
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Applies to England

Documents

Children’sChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: regulatory impact assessment (as amended in the House of Commons)

Ref: DfE-CWSB-RP-01

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Children’sChildren's Social Care Financial Oversight Scheme: regulatory impact assessment (as amended in the House of Commons)

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Children’sChildren's Social Care Provider Oversight Regime: regulatory impact assessment

Ref: DfE-CWSB-RP-03

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Children’sChildren's Social Care Profit Cap: regulatory impact assessment

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Children Not in School Registers: regulatory impact assessment (as amended in the House of Commons)

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Strengthening Regulation of Independent Educational Institutions: regulatory impact assessment (as amended in the House of Commons)

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Teacher Misconduct: regulatory impact assessment (as amended in the House of Commons)

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Children’sChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill –- non-regulatory impact assessment: children’schildren's social care measures (as amended in the House of Commons)

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Children’sChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill –- non-regulatory impact assessment: schools measures (as amended in the House of Commons)

PDF, 744649 KB, 8169 pages

Children’sChildren's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: equalityequalities impact assessment (as amended in the House of Commons)

PDF, 837559 KB, 7669 pages

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: child’s rights impact assessment (as amended in the House of Commons)

PDF, 582656 KB, 8377 pages

Details

The impact assessments include:

  • a bill-level impact assessment, which is a summary of the individual-measureindividual measure impact assessments –- this reflectsincludes for the bill as amended in the House of Commons
  • 6 impact assessments for ‘regulatory provisions’ measures in line with the Regulatory Policy Committee’s Better Regulation Framework guidance –- this reflectsincludes thefor 4 ‘regulatory provisions’ in the bill as amended in the House of Commons (the remaining 2 were not amended)
  • 2 impact assessments for 3229 measures across children’s social care and schools that are not ‘regulatory provisions’, with analysis of their expected impacts –- this reflectsincludes for the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage
  • a bill-level equalities impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures on protected characteristics, required by the public sector equality duty –- this reflectsincludes for the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage
  • a bill-level child’schild rights impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures against the UN Convention on Rights of a Child (UNCRC) –- this reflectsincludes for the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage

Versions of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: impact assessments from before the amendment are available infrom theThe National Archives.

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Published 30 January 2025

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  1. 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'.

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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.