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Recommendation 3
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The Committee heard from home educators that home-educated children are not ‘invisible’, and that safeguarding...
Recommendation
The Committee heard from home educators that home-educated children are not ‘invisible’, and that safeguarding has failed children who were already known to local authorities. However, the relevant authorities cannot begin to reach any children who may be at risk without a consistent and accurate method of knowing who they are. The context has changed dramatically in the last decade, as the number of children receiving EHE has grown. At present, local authorities may only know about home-educated children who have been withdrawn from school, and may lose touch with these children when families move.
Government response summary AI-generated
The government committed to a local authority administered statutory registration to identify children not in school, but deferred further details on its implementation and proposals for supporting home-educated children to its forthcoming consultation response.
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Government Response
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HM Government · verbatim extract
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9. The Government remains committed to a form of local authority administered statutory registration to identify children not in school. This would likely encompass children who are electively home educated and those who are missing education. Further details on this, as well as on proposals for supporting home-educated children, will be in the government response to the Children Not In School consultation, which will be published in the coming months.
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