How Labour is seizing more control over our children

Jan 8, 2025 by

by Kathy Gyngell, TCW:

NEVER underestimate Labour and their determination to wrest any final vestige of authority and concomitant responsibility from parents and endow it on the oh-so-caring state.

Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill has its Second Reading tomorrow and given Labour’s thumping majority it will be voted through.

Even Sky News’s reporting of it has been mildly critical. A few days ago it led with ‘Parents of the most vulnerable children will lose their right to home education’. 

This is to understate it. It is a further assault on parents’ freedom from the state regarding the upbringing and education of their children, transferring even more powers from parents to the state – a process started by Tony Blair when he decided to centralise, control and regulate families by a programme which merged protection services and child care with the education system. All parents became potential abusers while abusing parents carried on being ignored. In fact it has failed abysmally to protect children. Now Labour are doubling down on failure with the last bastion of parental authority and autonomy from the state, home schooling, threatened.

So never mind how bullied your child is or how much you object to a school’s sex education, gender identity teaching or ‘trans’ policy, or how bad the educational ethos and standards are, your power to take your child out of school is to be heavily circumscribed.

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