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ConservativeOverall, across health & social care this Parliament
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Ranks 751st of 1273 MPs and peers who have spoken on health or care this Parliament — top 59%. 8 contributions since 2025-07-03.
“…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.”
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill · 2026-01-28 · Read on Hansard ↗
“…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 Why should education be the one domain where all such trust is withdrawn?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 ·
“…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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