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HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI said I will come to that—I am coming to it. I will also answer the other point about the annual report. Once again, on this, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, and other noble…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI understand the point my noble friend makes. When children’s parents ask for their child to be taken off the roll of a school, which of course is absolutely their right, and the…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillAmendments in group 4, which we have now got to, concern the inclusion of certain information in the registers and the delegated power for changes to be made to the operation of…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillLet me organise my notes—you are keen for things to move quickly and then they move just that bit too quickly. The importance of out-of-school education providers to…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI have stated it on the record here. I have also identified one of the problems with putting it in the Bill—I used the example of time limits, where, so far, we have had two…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillWell, I can reassure my noble friend that I did cover Amendment 295 from the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb. What we are talking about in these provisions relates to…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillSupporting children to achieve and thrive requires parents, authorities and education providers to work together. That is what much of our debate today has been about and speaks…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillJust to be clear, I do not know whether I said that they would not produce the results that we expect. If I did, that was not what I meant to say. What I meant to say was that in…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, this Government are introducing the first ever duty on local authorities to provide support specifically for home-educating families. While home-educating parents assume…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am not convinced that the Equality and Human Rights Commission is the reason why there are difficulties in the way that the noble Lord outlined, but I take his point that we…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillTo continue where the noble Baroness finished, a child receiving unsuitable education for as little as a day could be detrimental for their educational development. The measures…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillIs the noble Lord clear that the best interests requirement relates to cases where children are subject to child protection inquiries or plans?02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI will write about that specific point.02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, as we continue to debate school attendance orders, we must never lose sight of the child at the heart of this. A child gets one chance at an education, and that is why…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillRight. I will turn then to Amendments 368, tabled by my noble friend Lady Whitaker, and Amendment 369, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Wei. These amendments seek to amend the…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillOn those points, I hope I can reassure the noble Lord that the law is already clear. We have discussed during the course of the debate that parents have the right to educate their…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI have just confirmed that, and we have talked about it at various different times with respect to home education. I completely accept that one of the reasons why parents want to…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, as I said previously, the school attendance order process is an existing process that is absolutely essential to provide children in unsuitable education a route to…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI will speak to this amendment in group 16, which is about the right to home-educate. I reiterate—it feels right to be doing this at the end of this debate, as I did at the…02 Sept 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, as I have said previously, the duty on parents to give information for children not in school registers is key to their operation. Information on where the child is…02 Sept 2025