Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill: motion relating to Lords Amendment 102

**What happened:** On 15 April 2026, MPs voted on whether to accept or reject Lords Amendment 102 to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. The government's position was to disagree with the Lords change, and the Commons backed that position by 259 votes to 136, meaning the Lords amendment was removed from the Bill. **Why it matters:** The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill is a wide-ranging piece of legislation covering child protection, school regulation and related education policy. Lords amendments represent changes the unelected upper chamber inserted during its scrutiny of the Bill; when the Commons votes to reject such amendments, it reasserts the elected chamber's preferred version of the legislation. The practical effect of this vote is that whatever policy the Lords sought to introduce or preserve through Amendment 102 will not, at this stage, form part of the Bill unless the Lords insists on it and the two chambers continue to negotiate. **The politics:** The vote divided along sharply partisan lines. Labour and Labour and Co-operative MPs voted unanimously in favour (254 combined Ayes), while Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs voted solidly against (83 and 52 Noes respectively). Four Green MPs voted with the government, and two Independents fell on each side. There were no Conservative or Liberal Democrat MPs voting with the government, and no Labour MPs broke ranks. This division is one of several on the same date relating to Lords amendments to the same Bill, suggesting the Commons was working through a package of Lords changes in a single sitting, a standard part of the parliamentary process known as ping-pong, where the two chambers exchange the Bill until they reach agreement.