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Westminster Hall
Educational Assessment System Reform - Wed 15 Oct 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Rachael Maskell (Ind - York Central) The level of mental health issues, stress, trauma and anxiety among our young people is unsustainable - Speech Link
2: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) mental health issues appear across many different areas of policy, and how poor mental health in childhood - Speech Link
3: Vikki Slade (LD - Mid Dorset and North Poole) The mental health impact of failing everything throughout their whole childhood was so devastating, on - Speech Link
4: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) personal recollections of education are more recent than my own, I not long ago lived through the trauma - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Baby Loss - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Amanda Hack (Lab - North West Leicestershire) Those who have experienced that trauma will need support to engage. - Speech Link
2: Adam Thompson (Lab - Erewash) Ryan should have had the chance to enjoy a happy, healthy childhood. - Speech Link
3: Sean Woodcock (Lab - Banbury) Many of those families experience birth trauma, PTSD and complicated grief. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bshp - Bishops) children with a parent in prison.Having a parent in prison is among the most significant adverse childhood - Speech Link
2: Baroness Tyler of Enfield (LD - Life peer) children include those who are at risk of or have indeed self-harmed, those who have experienced trauma - Speech Link
3: Baroness Whitaker (Lab - Life peer) children when I did some teaching; and more recently in encounters with embittered adults whose childhood - Speech Link
4: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (XB - Life peer) That is not trivial trauma; it is major. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Smith of Malvern (Lab - Life peer) service to support those with more serious needs; for instance, young people who have experienced trauma - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) I would not wish anyone to suffer the trauma of enduring such a tragedy, but those who sadly do should - Speech Link
2: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) What might have been one terrible moment has instead become a lasting trauma. - Speech Link
3: Kieran Mullan (Con - Bexhill and Battle) about drug addicts stealing to fund their habit, or the young man from a broken home who spent their childhood - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ambassador to the United States - Tue 16 Sep 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) The story is that of the frog and the scorpion, and it is one of my favourite childhood stories. - Speech Link
2: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) I have been thinking about the trauma not only that they went through then, but have been through since - Speech Link
3: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) We know that the trauma of sexual violence and sexual abuse can last a lifetime and, for many people, - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Children with SEND: Assessments and Support - Mon 15 Sep 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) It showed that adopted and fostered children can have not only trauma and other medical issues but educational - Speech Link
2: Jen Craft (Lab - Thurrock) does not stop at the school gates; it is holistic, looking forward to her life as she goes through childhood - Speech Link
3: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) We need to make sure that our children not only get the childhood that they deserve, but also the future - Speech Link
4: Liz Jarvis (LD - Eastleigh) But the trauma caused by dealing with this in your own home is beyond anything I have witnessed at work - Speech Link
5: Georgia Gould (Lab - Queen's Park and Maida Vale) to school because of their experiences when they were younger; one talked to me earlier about the trauma - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
2nd reading - Fri 12 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Patel of Bradford (Non-affiliated - Life peer) When my brother Krishna was in his late 20s, due to childhood health issues he suffered a series of strokes - Speech Link
2: Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne (Con - Life peer) I recall very well a wonderful example of this from childhood that all noble Lords may remember, a tremendous - Speech Link
3: Lord Hogan-Howe (XB - Life peer) for doctors to say what a dignified, pain-free death is; it is for the person who is suffering that trauma - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill - Wed 10 Sep 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: None Families have spoken of children spiralling into mental health crises at the age of six, of trauma so - Speech Link
2: None Such stories make it abundantly clear that punitive enforcement does not safeguard; it compounds trauma - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) deeply saddened by the obstacles they faced in accessing the education that was denied to them in childhood - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Prashar (XB - Life peer) Those in detention may have faced trauma such as persecution, threats to life and inhumane treatment - Speech Link
2: None The amendment would introduce a presumption of childhood in cases of doubt. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) He is a child who had already endured appalling trauma in the past. - Speech Link
2: Helen Hayes (Lab - Dulwich and West Norwood) It is a vital acknowledgment of the reality that the impact of early childhood trauma does not always - Speech Link
3: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab - Calder Valley) The children have often faced trauma, instability and loss. - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) They are almost all care experienced and share a childhood characterised by trauma, loss and disruption - Speech Link