Impact assessment

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: impact assessments

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

Applies to England

Documents

Children’s Social Care Profit Cap: regulatory impact assessment

Details

The impact assessments include:

  • a bill-level impact assessment, which is a summary of the individual-measure impact assessments – this reflects the bill as amended in the House of Commons
  • 6 impact assessments for ‘regulatory provisions’ measures in line with the Regulatory Policy Committee’s Better Regulation Framework guidance – this reflects the 4 ‘regulatory provisions’ in the bill as amended in the House of Commons (the remaining 2 were not amended)
  • 2 impact assessments for 32 measures across children’s social care and schools that are not ‘regulatory provisions’, with analysis of their expected impacts – this reflects the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage
  • a bill-level equalities impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures on protected characteristics, required by the public sector equality duty – this reflects the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage
  • a bill-level child’s rights impact assessment, which analyses the impact of measures against the UN Convention on Rights of a Child (UNCRC) – this reflects the bill as amended in the House of Commons and new government measures tabled at Lords report stage

Versions of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill: impact assessments from before the amendment are available in the National Archives.

Updates to this page

Published 30 January 2025
Last updated 7 January 2026 show all updates
  1. 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'.

  2. 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.

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

  4. First published.

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