The Children Schools and Families Bill will reach the House of Lords around Wednesday February 24th with Second Reading in the week commencing Monday March 8th. After Second Reading the Bill moves to Committee stage where amendments will be discussed. Any member of the House of Lords can speak at Committee stage on the measures contained in the Bill. Read our new page on canvassing members of the House of Lords, including tips on how to find peers with an interest in education, family life and civil liberties, and ideas for what you might say in your introductory letter.

Debate on Clause 26, the home education clause of the Children Schools and Families Bill, took a substantial part of the final Committee session with the Labour Chair unable or unwilling to advance the committee towards scrutiny of the remaining clauses of the Bill. Click here for a summary of the main issues raised in the Committee discussion on home education.

The transcript of Thursday's Committee session has now been published and can be read here.

The final scheduled meeting of the Bill Committee to discuss the Children Schools and Families Bill took place yesterday. Many home educators watched the proceedings live on parliament TV. The film archive can be found here.