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[Penny @LuckyPenny42]

@csjthinktank By "rebuilding communication and trust" with parents, do you mean levy bigger fines and threats of longer jail sentences?

[Hidden Voices Speak @hidvoicesspeak]

Lord Balfe, thank you for noticing that the voice of the child is absent in this Bill. Last week hundreds of children got together to let the government know that they felt worried about the impact part 2 of the Bill would have on them.
The children, some of whom represented neurodiverse communities that would struggle in the noisy protest environment, bravely addressed the crowds. You can read some of the things they said in the article linked in comments, or watch some of their speeches. The government response was to sneer at their numbers. Children should be at the heart of this Bill. Wellbeing should be at the heart of this Bill.
@bphillipsonMP @Keir_Starmer if you REALLY care, LISTEN to our concerns. We would welcome a conversation: can you answer the questions of a few teenagers? Or are you just going to scoff at them while taking a wrecking ball to their lives?
@UKLabour @LabourList

[Penny @LuckyPenny42]

Full Lor Wei speech here : https://t.co/L1KAPSxH98

[Penny @LuckyPenny42]

What if our schools went this way? @LabourList @bphillipsonMP wake up to @NatWei 's warning: 'You are handing on a platter to a future hard right Coalition or extremist government, the very legal machinery to rip progressive ideals from the curriculum

https://t.co/JjnVuIWKjR

[Penny @LuckyPenny42]

@SteveDarlingMP I hope it will also look at how much homework children get and if it's really all necessary. Screens are a problem, but so is being stuck to a desk after an already full school day.

[Fix The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act @stopthecwsbill]

We need to stand up in unity #MarchForChildren #stopCWSbill #AreYouListeningNow

[Hidden Voices Speak @hidvoicesspeak]

Banner ready to March for Children. All ways of learning are valid. Parents care most. Children should have a voice and a choice. @bphillipsonMP #Areyoulisteningnow

[Simon Squibb @simonsquibb]

My son is in danger.

This is the most important message I’ll ever write…

But our freedom is at stake.

There’s currently a bill, passing through parliament disguised as “safety.”

But instead, it’s a threat to our freedom.

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill gives local authorities the control to decide what YOUR child learns.

Stripping parents of their fundamental right to raise their own child.

If you don’t comply…

They can imprison you.

But that's not even the worse bit….

This Bill gives ANY future government power to restrict progressive ideas, religious education, or alternative worldviews and bars you from taking your child out to teach elsewhere.

Now I’m not saying labour will do this. But once this bill passes, it won’t go back.

That means ANY government will have the freedom to act on it.

This is how control creeps in.

Every year more laws are quietly added…

Chipping away at your freedom each time.

But this one CAN NOT go through.

They're going to tell you it’s about “child protection”

But it’s about STATE control.

Whatever your political stance. Left or Right. We need to come together and ensure this doesn’t happen.

Tell your MP. Tag them. DM them.

Tell the Prime Minister this is NOT okay.

@Keir_Starmer @bphillipsonMP @vidhyaalakeson rutherfoto MauriceGlasma

My dream has always been to change the education system.

I tried to get into politics. I spoke to the Minister of Education.

I could never get through, so I decided social media was my best bet.

But with this bill.

My dream dies.

If I’ve ever brought you any value.

Now’s the time to help me protect what matters most…

Our kids.

[durbanmamauk @durbanmamauk]

When 3 different KC's are all saying the same thing in their legal opinions, it is time for government to sit up and pay attention. The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is poorly drafted and breaches human rights and data protection. #AreYouListeningNow @bphillipsonMP

[Fix The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act @stopthecwsbill]

We have heard from several home-educating families that this bill feels like the government is trying to ban home education by the back door. One way to show that is not the case would be to withdraw Clause 30 -35, but if they do not, then add checks and balances.

[Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell]

Sir Dan Moynihan, CEO of the Harris Federation, still seeming not to include the chain's very-well-remunerated-even-by-MAT-standards central team in the scope of budget cuts, in this TES interview: https://t.co/dKOersQLuZ

[BBC London @BBCLondonNews]

According to BBC Politics London analysis, some London boroughs have seen a huge increase in the number of children being educated at home.

@helen_drew | #politicslondon | https://t.co/W4NNfTUJ73

[Hidden Voices Speak @hidvoicesspeak]

Here is their open letter to @bphillipsonMP . @csjthinktank we'd love to hear where you stand on the contents of this letter and the Bill's overreach!
https://t.co/stAhDgwSTP

[Hidden Voices Speak @hidvoicesspeak]

And the register won't keep children safe either. Reclaim Rights for Children, academic experts, and even the Victoria Climbie Foundation say it will endanger the very people you are advocating for.

[Hidden Voices Speak @hidvoicesspeak]

@csjthinktank Children for whom "Home Education" isn't a first choice, are already on a register. The LA know where to find them. Local Authorities lose on EHCP tribunals 98% of the time: they don't want to offer support.
https://t.co/stAhDgwSTP

[Penny @LuckyPenny42]

@BBCLondonNews @helen_drew The CWS Bill is not just a register though. It's the transfer of best interest decision making from parents to the state.
It's the gathering and use of data without limitation.
It's a bill about protection that even the Victoria Climbie Foundation don't support.

[Fix The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act @stopthecwsbill]

Why is no one talking about the Henry VIII powers in this dangerous bill in particular clause 63.

[Hidden Voices Speak @hidvoicesspeak]

A proud moment for the many authors of Hidden Voices Speak, signing the paperwork to donate our book to @britishlibrary

[Hidden Voices Speak @hidvoicesspeak]

We learned that @britishlibrary will look after our book forever, and that it will be available to anyone that asks for it.
Lots of submissions to the CWS committee have not been published. They will not be available to anyone else -Lords, MPs, the public. 27 of them will be saved in our book, protected by the library, but hundreds, maybe thousands of voices, will remain hidden.

[Penny @LuckyPenny42]

@hidvoicesspeak @natalieben Yes! @natalieben said all the things that need saying! . I met a mum choosing to HEd because her son was made to stand in the sun for lunch break because of his hair! He got a nose bleed and she felt awful as she had cut his hair herself. @bphillipsonMP
#Areyoulisteningnow