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Safeguarding risk data missing from councils’ home education records

Dozens of LAs hold no data on at-home kids potentially at risk, suggesting councils ill-prepared for new duties

Home education: Children forced to travel miles to sit exams

Analysis shows at least 10 centres have closed to private candidates in the past year

More duties? Some councils have no home education staff

Labour’s schools bill will give councils new duties to check family homes are a ‘suitable learning environment’

Home education soars by 21% in a year

And the number ‘missing’ education entirely has risen by 28 per cent

Parents will need council permission to home educate children with protection enquiries or plans

Councils will also have to include schools in ‘multi-agency safeguarding teams’

Home education soars in the wake of the pandemic

Analysis estimates 125,000 children are now educated at home across England

Plans for register of home educated children hang on extra funding

Key details – such as how sanctions for non-compliance would work – also still to be ‘worked through’

Home education rises 34%, with Covid most likely to be the reason

The number of children withdrawn from school for elective home education soared by 34 per cent last year, with Covid the reason most frequently cited by parents. Analysis by the Association of Directors of Children’s Services estimated that 115,542 pupils were electively home educated at some point during the 2020-21 academic year, up from 86,335 […]

MPs tell government to ‘shake up status quo’ on home education

MPs have slammed an “astonishing” lack of data on the number of children educated at home, and called for more powers for councils to check on their progress and welfare. School leaders backed calls for the government to introduce a national register of children educated at home, and to investigate a recent rise amid concerns […]