Home education

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'

Rhi Storer
Rhi Storer
Home education

Home education soars by 21% in a year

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

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Home education

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'

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
Schools

Home education soars in the wake of the pandemic

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

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
News

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'

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

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The number of children withdrawn from school for elective home education soared by 34 per cent last year, with...

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
News

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...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

Urgent action demanded on home education after deaths of ‘invisible’ children

The government must pay “urgent attention” to safeguarding for pupils educated at home, an expert has warned, amid a...

Tom Belger
Tom Belger
News

Home education among pupils with EHC plans up by a quarter in one year

The number of children with education, health and care plans being educated at home has risen by almost a...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker