Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act: impact assessments
Impact assessments of the measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026.
Applies to England
Documents
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:
Updates to this page
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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.
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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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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.
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Added 'Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: child’s rights impact assessment'.
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First published.