Addressing MPs and peers in the House of Lords today (17 July), Charles said: “A Bill will be introduced to raise standards in education and promote children’s wellbeing.”
Children’s Wellbeing Bill
The Children’s Wellbeing Bill “will put children and their wellbeing at the centre of the education and children’s social care systems, and make changes so they are safe, healthy, happy and treated fairly”, according to briefing notes published to accompany the speech.
It is planned to strengthen multi-agency child protection and safeguarding arrangements for vulnerable children as well as place a duty on all local authorities to keep a register of children not in school.
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