Biography
Lord Wei has engaged on children's education policy through eight debate speeches on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, focusing on proportionality, accountability and parental rights in provisions concerning home education, school withdrawal and data collection. His contributions emphasise safeguarding against overreach by local authorities while protecting vulnerable families, and include technical amendments designed to ensure evidence-based decision-making rather than discretionary powers. He has addressed maternity-related matters briefly within broader discussions of lived experience and expertise.
Generated from their own Hansard record, below
“…o approved exam centres, building on the thinking around Amendment 160, including adjustments for children with special educational needs. That would ensure that the responsibility is not left just to good will or market convenience.”
Record by topic
- Learning disability & autism307th of 89912.0
- Mental health481st of 8806.0
- Maternity & neonatal363rd of 4382.0
What they’ve said
“…The effects ripple outward. Children suffer when teachers, social workers and SEND staff are forced to spend more time filling in forms than supporting them, and parents are treated with suspicion, not because of evidence of harm but because they made a lawful choice to educate differently.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-09-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…Some are vulnerable, fleeing domestic abuse or suffering with SEND bureaucracy. For them, intrusive data demands feel less like protection and more like surveillance. If the state is perceived as hostile, families may retreat from engagement altogether, making genuine safeguarding harder, not easier.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-09-18 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…The courts accept third-party expert testimony in mental health cases. In GDPR, controllers are not required to collect identifying data if it is not needed. Why should education be the one domain where all such trust is withdrawn? Case law supports this principle.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-07-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…I believe that you can be subject to an S47 if you are being groomed in a school—unmet special educational needs or serious mental health concerns. In doing so, it risks turning what should be a family’s protective step—for example, taking your child out of that circumstance of grooming by bullies in school—into a proc…”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-07-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…In no way would I want the Minister to interpret me as saying that one could not be a male midwife or anything like that, but, as some of us know, when in certain circles I have talked about something feeling like childbirth, I have quite rightly been told off, because I have never given birth.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2025-07-03 · Read on Hansard ↗
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