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Lords division · 19 Jan 2026 · No. 5

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

The Lord Bishop of Manchester moved amendment 58, in clause 11, page 17, line 40, at end to insert—“(12) The relevant Secretaries of State for Education and for Health and Social Care must collaborate to lay before Parliament, annually, a review of the impact of the measures contained in this section.(13) The review must, as a minimum, consider and report on the following matters—(a) the numbers of new section 25 orders made during the last year in England and in Wales, the ages of the children placed under them, and an analysis of whether and where the rate of use is increasing or decreasing;(b) the durations of child detention or other restriction of liberty under such orders (minimum, maximum, mean and median);(c) the types of accommodation in which section 25 orders have been applied, including their registration status with Ofsted or the Care Quality Commission;(d) the approval and use of “recovery plans” for all children to move on from section 25 orders in a short a period as safely possible;(e) the involvement of Independent Reviewing Officers, independent advocates and children themselves in the making and reviewing of section 25 orders;(f) the types of accommodation where children live following the end of a section 25 order.”The House divided:

The Not Contents have it

Majority 8

Contents: 148 Not Contents: 156

At a glance The Not Contents won by a margin of 8 votes. The Government's position was Not Content, and it won.

How the parties voted

Contents

Conservative 134
Non-affiliated 3
Democratic Unionist Party 3
Plaid Cymru 2
Crossbench 2
Ulster Unionist Party 1
Lord Speaker 1
Green Party 1
Bishops 1

Not Contents

Labour 147
Non-affiliated 5
Crossbench 4

The party breakdowns are our own analysis of the official voting records (recorded votes only; they do not describe the formal whip). How we work this out.

Peers attend divisions ad hoc, so there is no did-not-vote list. Tellers are counted in the Content and Not Content totals, unlike in the Commons.

Tellers: The Earl of Courtown (Content), Baroness Williams of Trafford (Content), Lord Kennedy of Southwark (Not Content), Baroness Wheeler (Not Content).

Every vote

Contents (146)

Not Contents (154)

Tellers (4)

Source: the official Lords division record.