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Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Hansard - UK Parliament Hansard record of the item : 'Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill' on Thursday 3 July 2025.

Read the Lord Frost comments in context, in the Hansard record of the full House of Lords debate on July 3, 2025 (part 1)

Children’s Wellbeing and #SchoolsBill Committee Stage #CWBSBill hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0... 2/2

YouTube video by defend digital me Lord Frost July 3, 2025 Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Lord Frost, Children's Wellbeing and #SchoolsBill 3/7/2025, "we are seeing the erosion of the vital principle that freedom and autonomy are fundamentally important and that the state does not have the right to go anywhere it wants at will".

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Our interview @privacyinternational.org podcast includes discussion of UK Department for #Education “Futures research looking at the implications of the use of #genomics in relation to education, focusing on 2 potential future scenarios.”

Timely in context of recent news www.bbc.com/news/article...

YouTube video by Privacy International Learning about learners: Protecting Children's Data

I already knew of the issues surrounding DfE collection of pupil data and the UK database state but this is a really eye-opening and interesting (by which I mean horrifying) account of that by Jen Peersen from @defenddigitalme.bsky.social. I highly recommend you give it a listen
youtu.be/3vb_JysheF0

NHS number to be national ID mandated in Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill — Defend Digital Me There are three key things going on in parallel about the Single Unique Identifier (“SUI”) ID mandated in Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill and children’s NHS number: 1. The Government has confirm...

#NHS number to be national ID mandated in Children’s Wellbeing and #SchoolsBill

Key points of what we know, and seven areas of scrutiny and challenge, particularly as Clause 31 in the Bill is debated soon and its potential for scope creep, as happening in Wales

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Learning about learners protecting children’s data — Privacy International podcast from June 2025 interview with Defend Digital Me — “the technology pill” images on orange background with white text.

“Learning about learners: Protecting Children's #Data” @PrivacyInternational.org with @JenPersson.com (June 2025).

Current issues in education in England: What’s in a National Pupil Record? #EdTech, #AI, what futures are possible and how and why it matters

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A photo of the executive summary of the ‘Data Tech and Black Communities’ report: “what if we took stewarding children’s data seriously?” The first part of a wide range of their work. On #edTech #pupildata and #HumanRights empowering children and families in state education in England. dtbc.org.uk

A photo from slides shown at the ‘Data Tech and Black Communities’ report launch: “what if we took stewarding children’s data seriously?” This slide is of the website dtbc.org.uk More coming soon.

A photo from slides shown at the ‘Data Tech and Black Communities’ report launch: “what if we took stewarding children’s data seriously?” This slide is talking about the advertising in EdTech

A photo from slides shown at the ‘Data Tech and Black Communities’ report launch: “what if we took stewarding children’s data seriously?” This slide is talking about the commercial exploitation and incentives in EdTech that are not in the best interests of the child

Excited to be participating at the ‘Data Tech and Black Communities’ report launch in Birmingham.

The first part of a wide range of their work. On #edTech #pupildata and #HumanRights empowering children and families in state education in England. dtbc.org.uk

More coming soon.

What happens when public data is shared with the wrong people?

🗃️ The Department for Education (DfE) maintains records about everybody who has received state-funded education in England since 1996 in the National Pupil Database. It routinely shares this information with third parties.

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Joint Letter on Encryption and the European Internal Security Strategy (ProtectEU) On 26 May 2025, CDT Europe, as part of the steering committee of the Global Encryption Coalition, alongside 88 civil society organisations, companies, and cybersecurity experts published a joint lette...

📢 CDT Europe and 88 others just sent a joint letter to the European Commission warning against plans that risk weakening end-to-end #encryption in the EU.

Strong encryption protects everyone’s security. We need to defend it, not undermine it. #E2EE #ProtectEU

Know any data vampires? White text in orange tile with three bat silhouettes in corners

On #WorldVampireDay — you can use a ‘Subject Access Request’ to ask the DfE for a copy of all the personal data sucked out from your school about you or your child since 2002.

Find out: Who’s been given it & why? What is kept forever? #DraculaDay #Education

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Five years after the ICO DfE audit, only a 6-side summary has ever been published about the 139 findings defenddigitalme.org/wp-content/upl… Remedial actions are long overdue—why can the termly census affecting 700,000 pupils be done if the required fixes aren’t?defenddigitalme.org/wp-content/u...df

Unlawful, unsafe and unaccountable. Education's big data problem A damning ICO report on the DfE’s data handling is a wake-up call for the department - and schools can also learn from it, writes Jen Persson

The summer term #school #census opens in England today. But do parents know where pupil records go each term? Will the new ICO Code of Practice for #education help?

“Unlawful, unsafe and unaccountable. Education, we have a #data problem.” (2020) in Schools Week schoolsweek.co.uk/unlawful-uns... 1/2

Tomorrow is the deadline!! 🌟

News and communications Find news and communications from government

In August last year the UK government announced a share of £1m to award to AI companies who bring forward the best ideas to reduce teacher workload by March 2025.

Anyone seen an announcement of the successful tools?

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And that’s it. Choose your own adventure, the outcomes are up to you.

If you can, help us resist a dystopian future in education and fight for safe, fair, transparent data, systems and #EdTech that empower every learner to thrive.
 Enjoy the game. #HappyEaster2025

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My Records My Rights | Defend Digital Me — Defend Digital Me My Records My Rights (The National Pupil Database)

Or will you become the Digital Ghost? Your future erased.



"You decide you will write to your MP in parliament in secret, but for now, you are stuck until you choose to work with others to resist." 7/8



Instead, you can choose to write to them today defenddigitalme.org/my-school-re...

Resources — Defend Digital Me

Or will you resist, and start by finding out more?

Take action in the real world scenarios today, with Defend Digital Me resources and templates. 

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Who knows what about you? 6/8

Will you be the good student?

"Years later, you apply for university. You realise your entire history is owned by private firms. Your thoughts, habits, relationships—all pre-analysed, predictable.

Your choices are decided by them. Your life was never yours.” 5/8

YouTube video by defend digital me Ban Biometrics in Schools Animation 2022

You start looking into the systems. You talk to the IT teacher—one of the few adults who still seems human. The first thing you do is revoke consent to your biometric data and watch a video to find out more about use of #biometrics in schools. 4/8

Check it out www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kdW...

You are being watched, constantly. At first, it feels normal. Convenient, even. And now, you start to wonder: Who owns this data? Who controls it? What do you do?



Investigate or continue complying? 

#HappyEaster2025 at Horizon Academy 3/8

Will you resist quietly—try to avoid the new systems, revolt, or be the model student? A choose-your-own adventure game.

"Then, one morning, the Data Compliance Team arrives."

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Follow the link to play 🎲 "Data Shadows: A Student's Tale". defenddigitalme.org/wp-content/u...

This weekend, we've a little Easter egg for dystopian fiction fans. Or is it?

"You are a Year 10 pupil at Horizon Academy. You didn’t sign up for the new system. No one asked for your permission. But your school bought it anyway. What do you do?"

Choose wisely in our Twine.

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#Childrights are under threat and so are the organisations defending them. Anti-rights movements are using #childprotection language to roll back progress.
We need a strong, funded #civilsociety to fight back. Read our Secretary General Sabine Saliba's blog 👇https://buff.ly/njjh8cD

Impact Assessment and scrutiny not fit for purpose: the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill so far — Defend Digital Me Today, MP Neil O’Brien,”put on record,” that the Minister will be, “well aware of some of the concerns about the clause that are coming to us from civil society.” “I am sure that she will have seen th...

The Children’s Wellbeing and #Schools Bill so far: Impact Assessment & scrutiny not fit for purpose defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/07/i... #Data

Pushing everything 'too difficult' into #CWBSBill secondary regs gets them passed without scrutiny but makes Bill high-risk schoolsweek.co.uk/campaigners-...

The panel includes:

- Kay Firth-Butterfield, DSC - Leo Ratledge, Co-Director of the Child Rights International Network
- Jen Persson (@jenpersson.com) , founder of Defend Digital Me @defenddigitalme.bsky.social
- Tracey Gyateng, co-founder of Data, Tech and Black Communities

#ChildRightsDSC

DOUGHTY STREET CHAMBERS CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUP ANNUAL CHILDREN’S RIGHTS LECTURE 2024 DOUGHTY STREET CHAMBERS CHILDREN’S RIGHTS GROUP ANNUAL CHILDREN’S RIGHTS LECTURE 2024Thursday 13 March 2025, 17.30 – 19:00 GMT, followed by a reception until 20:00 GMT.Every year, in November, the int...

📣Doughty Street Chambers Children’s Rights Group Annual Children’s Rights Lecture 2024 |Thursday 13 March 2025, 17.30 – 19:00 📣

The lecture will be delivered by
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social, London School of Economics and Political Science. The event will be chaired by @aoifenolan.bsky.social

The panel includes:

- Kay Firth-Butterfield, DSC
- Leo Ratledge, Co-Director of the Child Rights International Network
- Jen Persson (@jenpersson.com) , founder of Defend Digital Me @defenddigitalme.bsky.social
- Tracey Gyateng, co-founder of Data, Tech and Black Communities

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#privacy #HomeEd #data #SchoolsBill #NHS #ID #education #CWBSBill

We are keeping the vast array of Bill documents here, because not everything published is on the Bill page. Our own mapping and written contributions are being updated and added on a rolling basis defenddigitalme.org/policy/policy/

Impact Assessment and scrutiny not fit for purpose: the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill so far — Defend Digital Me Today, MP Neil O’Brien,”put on record,” that the Minister will be, “well aware of some of the concerns about the clause that are coming to us from civil society.” “I am sure that she will have seen th...

The Children’s Wellbeing and #Schools Bill so far: Impact Assessment & scrutiny not fit for purpose defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/07/i... #Data

Pushing everything 'too difficult' into #CWBSBill secondary regs gets them passed without scrutiny but makes Bill high-risk schoolsweek.co.uk/campaigners-...

A card to accompany the blogpost: School pupils’ ‘sex survey’ data offered to researchers: Opt out fails children on reuse of ID and research https://defenddigitalme.org/2025/02/05/school-pupils-sex-survey-data-offered-to-researchers-opt-out-fails-children-on-reuse-of-id-and-research/ Where the headline text is on the right of the card below the Defend Digital Me logo and superimposed on a transparent background image of a government building, Scottish flag, question marks and shadow of a child, all below 'the hand of the state' and zeros and ones in white on pink.

School pupils’ ‘sex survey’ data offered to researchers: Opt out fails children on reuse of #ID and Local Authorities’ survey

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#Scotland #Health #Wellbeing #DataBill #DUABill #CWBSBill #DataProtection #privacy #AI #Copyright Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill