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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act: impact assessments

Impact assessments of the measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
30 January 2025
Last updated:
6 August 2026
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  1. Added updated versions of the documents to reflect the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 receiving Royal Assent. Previous versions are available on The National Archives.

  2. 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'.

  3. 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.

  4. Added 'Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: child’s rights impact assessment'.

  5. First published.

This was published under the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government

Applies to England

Documents

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026: regulatory impact assessment

PDF, 2.12 MB, 78 pages

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

PDF, 416 KB, 39 pages

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

PDF, 343 KB, 18 pages

Children’s Social Care Profit Cap: regulatory impact assessment

PDF, 296 KB, 20 pages

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

PDF, 527 KB, 50 pages

Strengthening Regulation of Independent Educational Institutions: regulatory impact assessment

PDF, 1.82 MB, 77 pages

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

PDF, 477 KB, 38 pages

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 – non-regulatory impact assessment: children’s social care measures

PDF, 825 KB, 97 pages

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 – non-regulatory impact assessment: schools measures

PDF, 1.81 MB, 93 pages

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026: equality impact assessment

PDF, 1.66 MB, 88 pages

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026: child’s rights impact assessment

PDF, 1.45 MB, 92 pages

Details

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 Better Regulation Framework guidance
  • 2 impact assessments for 32 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’s rights impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures against the UN Convention on Rights of a Child (UNCRC)

Refer to the National Archives for previous versions of the impact assessments:

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