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I received this e-mail today and I must admit that I am horrified by
this bill. I have zero trust in Social Workers and even less in the
faceless bureaucrats of the local council education boards and
committees. The thought of giving them the final say in what happens to
our children is horrifying!

God bless,
Kendall K. Down

ACTION ALERT: Parliamentary debate on School's Bill petition:
Write to your MP before 1st December.

The Government petition rCyWithdraw the ChildrenrCOs Wellbeing and SchoolrCOs BillrCO has now closed and will be debated by Parliament on Monday 1st December 2025 (4.30pm in Westminster Hall) after being signed by 166,498 people. We have reported extensively on the dangers to parental rights contained within the Bill. The proposals impact every parent and so we
urge you to write to / email your MP before 1st December to ask them to
attend the debate and speak up for parents, children and families.

There are five key issues you could include in your email and ask them
to raise:

1. Local authorities will be given the power to veto your decisions: In circumstances where a child has a disability and is in a specialist
school, or when a family is going through a child protection enquiry,
the council will automatically make decisions about those childrenrCOs schooling. It is important to note that families under investigation by
Social Services are often not guilty of anything at all. Social Services
must investigate all safeguarding complaints, which means that a
disapproving or disgruntled ex-partner, family member, or anyone else
inclined to make a complaint, could derail a familyrCOs plan to home
educate by prompting a child protection enquiry. (Clause 31, subjection
434A)

2. Parents will be more easily criminalised: The Bill introduces harsher
fines and even prison sentences for parents who act contrary to
decisions made by the council regarding the education of their children.
For example, failure to comply with a School Attendance Order (SAO) can
result in a prison sentence of up to 51 weeks. This means that parents
could be criminalised for making educational decisions they believe are
in their childrenrCOs best interests. (Clause 33, subsection 436Q)

3. Educational choice for parents will be eroded: Private businesses or home-education co-operatives may be compelled to register as independent schools if a local authority can demonstrate that they provide the
majority of a childrCOs education. This would significantly affect faith
and minority communities, such as the Haredi Jewish community, who home educate while relying on privately operated rCyYeshivasrCO (schools) for religious instruction. Under the proposed regulations, Yeshivas would be required to follow all guidance related to independent schools, such as rCyequality and diversityrCO regulations, relating to gender and sexuality rCo a change that would fundamentally alter their educational model, and
risk eroding long-established religious traditions that have been
maintained for generations. (Clause 37, paragraph 2)

4. Academies will have to teach the National Curriculum, removing the
ability of school leaders and teachers, in conjunction with parents, to
design a curriculum specially tailored for their pupils. This risks the
loss of the hard-won achievements of some highly successful academies
which have creative, innovative and specialist curricula. (Clause 48, paragraph 2b)

5. Extraordinary surveillance powers will be introduced: The proposed
register of home-educated children would require parents to disclose the identity and details of every adult involved in their childrenrCOs
education. In practice, this would compel families to report even
incidental or occasional instruction, such as weekend swimming sessions
or music lessons. Such a requirement constitutes a substantial intrusion
into family privacy and creates an unequal standard, as no comparable
data is mandated for children enrolled in traditional schools. (Clause
32, subsection 436B - 436G)

6. The introduction of the rCySingle Unique Identifier:rCO This represents a rCydigital IDrCO for children that will facilitate the sharing of
information across multiple agencies such as schools, the Social
Services and GPs without parental knowledge and consent. (Clause 4,
subsection 16LA - 16LB)

The ChildrenrCOs Wellbeing and SchoolrCOs Bill claims to make our children safer, but it removes power from their parents and hands it to
strangers. Home educating families, and families where there are
children with additional or special needs, may be the most affected, but
the proposals in the Bill would impact us all. Freedom given away, is
not easily restored.

For reference, the citations above are taken from the latest version of
the published Bill which you can find here on the Parliament website.

Parliament will debate this petition on 1 December 2025 (at 4.30pm in Westminster Hall).

You'll be able to watch online on the UK Parliament YouTube channel.
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