Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 16
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Paragraph: 71
Local authorities told us that they lack sufficient powers.
Recommendation
Local authorities told us that they lack sufficient powers. It seems to us that the grey area in the Departmental guidance—where there is no legal duty for parents to respond to enquiries about EHE, but the local authority is entitled to conclude that education may not be suitable should those parents not respond—cannot be conducive to constructive relationships between EHE parents and local authorities.
Paragraph Reference:
71
Government Response
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