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HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill19 Jun 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, like my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti, I am also an occasional visitor to this Committee, but I am very pleased to be here this evening to address her Amendment 275. I…18 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillNoble Lords are very premature today. I was coming not quite to that but to something that I hope will be satisfactory in relation to that reporting mechanism. Ofsted, as the…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI will clarify that in the letter. On Amendment 131 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, on the important matter of the use of restraint on children in care and subject to…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, I shall speak to amendments in group 4. As other noble Lords have identified, we have a market that is dysfunctional and not working appropriately. That results in the…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, before I turn to the amendments in the first group, I want to be clear, as many noble Lords have recognised, that the measures in Clause 10, together with those that we…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI will certainly take advice and look carefully at that, but I assure the Committee that the appropriate committee, the name of which escapes me, has of course looked in detail at…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillI am always willing to allow noble Lords to intervene, but I was actually coming to another paragraph in my speaking note, which I hope addresses the point that the noble Baroness…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillAs usual, my friend the noble and learned Baroness makes an important point about the application of the law in this particular case. I think, as she suggests, that legal…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillMy Lords, as others have said during the course of this important debate, Clause 11 is about provision for some of the most vulnerable children in the country and the importance…17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill17 Jun 2025HANSARDChildren’s Wellbeing and Schools BillNevertheless, we believe that it is possible. On the definition of relevant accommodation, we believe that it is possible to find those sorts of homes—sometimes supported by the…17 Jun 2025HANSARDPost-16 Financial EducationMy Lords, financial education is delivered through the national curriculum at key stages 3 and 4 through citizenship education and the mathematics curriculum. Although it is not…12 Jun 2025HANSARDPost-16 Financial EducationI also recognise the contribution that Young Enterprise plays, having been both a participant in it as a student and an organiser of it as a teacher of economics and business…12 Jun 2025HANSARDPost-16 Financial EducationAll primary schools in England teach many of the skills that are important for financial education as part of the maths curriculum. They also have non-statutory but important…12 Jun 2025HANSARDPost-16 Financial EducationI do not necessarily agree with the noble Lord’s characterisation of the way that financial education is delivered, for example, through citizenship, but he makes an important…12 Jun 2025HANSARDPost-16 Financial EducationOf course, this is part of what the Money and Pensions Service strategy aims to do, as is the work I identified that is being supported by the dormant assets funding. We also need…12 Jun 2025HANSARDPost-16 Financial EducationMy noble friend makes an important point about the intersection of financial education and the need to ensure that our children have a good understanding about their online…12 Jun 2025HANSARDPost-16 Financial EducationI have had some very good contacts with the OECD about the work that it is doing, not just in this area but more broadly. I cannot commit at this moment that we will take part in…12 Jun 2025