Biography
Baroness Evans of Bowes Park has engaged with education and child welfare matters across four debate speeches in 2025, focusing on school autonomy, physical activity, and kinship care arrangements. Her contributions emphasize evidence-based policy, particularly supporting curriculum flexibility for academies and free schools, and advocating for streamlined processes to support kinship carers while maintaining safeguards. She declared an interest as a board member of the London Marathon Foundation when discussing physical activity in schools.
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“…We are also seeing a worrying trend of young people’s mental health deteriorating alongside their physical health. These are not just numbers. They represent millions of young people whose physical and emotional well-being is compromised before their adulthood begins.”
Record by topic
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Learning disability & autism592nd of 8994.0
- Heart disease & stroke324th of 3982.0
- Unpaid carers243rd of 2832.0
What they’ve said
“…demonstrated how its innovative approach has allowed it to design provisions specifically aimed at pupils with autism, while spreading best practice across the system. Allowing this flexibility does not and should not mean a free-for-all, and that is certainly not the case now.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-09-10 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…in this group in the name of my noble friend, which, as she set out, aim to simplify the process for approving kinship carers, balancing the importance of robust safeguards with greater flexibility and discretion within the process to speed it up in the best interests of the child.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-06-09 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…nment gap for pupils on free school meals, which had narrowed before Covid; improving attendance; ensuring that SEND pupils get the quality of education they deserve; and dealing with the growing mental health crisis facing our young people, to name just a few.”
Free Schools and Academies · 2025-01-23 · Read on Hansard ↗
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