MASS MP EMAIL CAMPAIGN

Template letter for your MP to be sent first thing ON THE 2ND OF SEPTEMBER  please.

Find your MP’s email address HERE:

Copy and paste this letter into an email using the email subject line: Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Insert your MP’s name where indicated and be sure to amend the descriptor in the paragraph beginning: “Personally I write as….”

Add your own name, address and postcode at the end where indicated. Links at the end to be included.

PLEASE EDIT ALL FONT COLOURS TO BLACK BEFORE SENDING - THE RED IS SIMPLY TO HELP YOU SPOT WHERE TO EDIT.

PROOFREAD TO CHECK EVERYTHING IS CORRECT, AND CLICK SEND (consider requesting a “read receipt”).

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Dear [insert MP name]

Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill

I write as one of your constituents concerning the above inappropriately-titled piece of legislation.

This Bill is currently part way through its Committee Stage in the House of Lords, after being hurried through the Commons with minimal scrutiny.

As your constituent, it is your duty to represent me in Parliament. I therefore ask you to give serious consideration to the concerns outlined below, and to act upon them when the Bill returns to the Commons prior to Royal Assent, probably before the end of this year.

Personally I write as [amend to suit, eg. a parent, a home educator, a grandparent, etc], but I can assure you that every family will be adversely affected if this Bill passes into legislation as it stands. This would be due to the following reasons:

• This Bill, amongst others, evidences the worrying trend of state expansion into the private lives of its citizens. For example, the Children Not in School measures evidence an underlying belief that the state possesses a right to oversee the whole of every child’s life. A wedge of state intervention is thus being driven between parents and their children, with no recognition that children’s rights and those of their parents are actually complementary. The Bill does this by mistaking control and restrictions for protection. Consent is being overridden by coercion, with the result that children’s rights to privacy, family and home are being erased.
• Child protection experts are saying that this Bill is dangerous. The Bill proposes to record, store and distribute children’s personal information without informed consent for reasons other than child protection. Sensitive personal data should be shared only in case of absolute necessity, and with proper data security measures in place. The desire to use every child’s NHS number as their Consistent Identifier has already raised a storm of protest from other agencies.

Legislative thresholds exist to provide a mechanism for holding truly irresponsible, neglectful or abusive parents to account, but also to rein in the tendency of officialdom to endlessly expand its scope and remit. Below the threshold of a child being at risk of ‘significant harm,’ it is vital that parents retain consent for data about their child or family to be shared.

Parents of children surviving domestic abuse and intrafamilial child sex abuse are particularly concerned about the prospect of the details of their children's daily whereabouts being stored and shared, with nothing in the legislation to prevent such information being shared with abusers. Concerns made all the more troubling by the government's lack of response to the Child Safeguarding Panel Review Report, "I wanted them all to notice" detailing horrifying systemic failures in protecting children from abuse, likely to be made worse not better by the CWS Bill.

• As far as safeguarding is concerned, good child protection laws already exist. These work well, when they are followed.  Wellbeing does not equate to non-consensual safeguarding, i.e. child protection. A duty to share information in the interests of unspecific ‘wellbeing’ is already leading to more referrals below the legal threshold. This can only render existing systems more inefficient, besides bringing upon some families stressful and unmerited interventions.
• Naturally and historically, parents have long been considered the prime determiners of the best interests of their child, but recent years have seen this role being increasingly handed to agents of the state. This fundamental and unacceptable change must be identified, debated and effectively challenged. The role of parents needs to be respected and supported, not surveilled.

Principles aside, delegating such responsibilities to state employees is functionally neither safe nor effective, particularly with the rise of automated decision-making by AI technologies.

• Ill-defined and generic terminology in the Bill’s drafting leaves far too much to interpretation and secondary legislation, with unspecified powers remaining open to future abuse or unregulated expansion. In this case, leaving important details to be decided by this or future Secretaries of State without suitable limitations or proper consideration of unintended consequences or harms is unbelievably irresponsible.

I commend the resources appended below my signature for your consideration, and ask again that you will exercise your responsibility to seek the good of all by heeding my concerns and looking very carefully into the many misguided proposals of the Children’s Wellbeing & Schools Bill. Please ask yourself if it is a classic case of bad powers being created, albeit (perhaps) with good intention.

I look forward to hearing from you, and would be very happy to speak with you further about any of the points I have raised.

Yours sincerely,

[Name

Address

Postcode]

(very important if you want your MP to read it!)

Dangerous bills - Reclaim Rights for Children
https://rightsforchildren.uk/dangerousbills

Open letter on CWS Bill - Reclaim Rights for Children
https://rightsforchildren.uk/open-letter-on-schools-bill

NHS number to be national ID mandated in Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill | Defend Digital Me
https://defenddigitalme.org/2025/06/14/nhs-number-to-be-national-id-mandated-in-childrens-wellbeing-and-schools-bill

Child Safeguarding Panel Review Report, "I wanted them all to notice"

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67446a8a81f809b32c8568d3/CSPRP_-_I_wanted_them_all_to_notice.pdf

VCF Briefing on Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

VCF Briefing on Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill - The Victoria Climbié Foundation UKThe Victoria Climbié Foundation UK