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Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 28 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bird (XB - Life peer) form.Let us please look at targets and be honest about them, and begin, as a society and as a Chamber - Speech Link
2: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley (LD - Life peer) It affects children’s dignity and well-being, and, ultimately, their ability to learn and succeed in - Speech Link
3: None and awareness of PFAS in the environment; identify and address releases of harmful PFAS; and protect - Speech Link
4: None , Clauses 32 and 36 and Schedule 2 from the Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 19 Jan 2026
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) He also said:“The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund has helped children and their families - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and Permanence, alongside Rachael Maskell, the MP for York. - Speech Link
3: Lord Watson of Invergowrie (Lab - Life peer) children out of care and residential homes.We need to think again about how we approach adoption and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) Amendments 46 and 47 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Storey, concern funding for the adoption and special - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Self-employed Adoptive Parents: Statutory Support - Mon 08 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) access statutory adoption leave and pay. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) Evidence gathered by Home for Good and Adoption UK through the all-party parliamentary group on adoption - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Josh MacAlister (Lab - Whitehaven and Workington) I appreciate the strength of feeling regarding the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Will the Minister meet the all-party parliamentary group on adoption and permanence to talk about the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Statutory Maternity and Paternity Pay - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (Ind - York Central) on this issue by organisations such as Adoption UK and Home for Good. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) Worse still, according to a 2022 survey by the all-party parliamentary group on adoption and permanence - Speech Link
3: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) pay; paternity leave and pay; shared parental leave and pay; unpaid parental leave; adoption leave and - Speech Link
4: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) As times have changed, there have been tweaks and updates: paternity leave and adoption leave in 2003 - Speech Link
5: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) We have already heard about that in the context of adoption, and my hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Giving Every Child the Best Start in Life - Wed 16 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) rebuilding trust with families.Continuing on that theme, the adoption and special guardianship support - Speech Link
2: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) her time to me today to discuss early permanence and support for fostered and adopted children.Evidence - Speech Link
3: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) Our national kinship care ambassador is working with local authorities to improve support and permanence - Speech Link
4: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) Member for Twickenham (Munira Wilson) rightly pointed out that the removal of the adoption and special - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 16 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) Where adoption is the right option for children, it needs to happen without delay, and early permanence - Speech Link
2: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) As an adoptive parent and a foster carer, I know the transformative effect that early permanence can - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) Adoption England has published national standards to promote and shape early permanence practice across - Speech Link
4: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) The adoption and special guardianship support fund has not been cut. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Thu 12 Jun 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LD - Life peer) We all know the figures on fostering and adoption. - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and Permanence as an officer and occasional co-chair for the past seven or eight years. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) , and our focus needs to be on supporting Adoption England and regional adoption agencies to improve - Speech Link
4: None the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
6: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) reports and on adoption agencies. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Mon 09 Jun 2025
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: None This is often teachers, coaches and support workers, and they are able to put the safety and needs of - Speech Link
2: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The financial cost to local authorities of successive care proceedings leading to fostering and adoption - Speech Link
3: None less security as regards permanence and parental responsibility; this is particularly so if the order - Speech Link
4: None That would both speed up the process of securing permanence and help to avoid the decision being contested - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Adoption and Kinship Placements - Tue 20 May 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Sarah Dyke (LD - Glastonbury and Somerton) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
2: Rebecca Smith (Con - South West Devon) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
3: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
5: Clive Jones (LD - Wokingham) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
6: Jess Brown-Fuller (LD - Chichester) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
7: Janet Daby (Lab - Lewisham East) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
8: Rachel Gilmour (LD - Tiverton and Minehead) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
9: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
10: Chris Bloore (Lab - Redditch) the adoption and special guardianship support fund. - Speech Link
11: Alison Bennett (LD - Mid Sussex) , and prevents adoption breakdowns every single day. - Speech Link
12: Gregory Stafford (Con - Farnham and Bordon) increasing adoption and strengthening kinship policymaking, including by introducing the adoption and - Speech Link
13: Joe Robertson (Con - Isle of Wight East) for the Government to go further and better support families in adoption and kinship care. - Speech Link