Children, Schools and Families Bill - Home Education

The Children, Schools and Families Bill has now been published. Schedule 1 — Home education: England makes depressing reading. A summary of it is:

19A Maintenance of home education register

(1) A local authority in England shall maintain a register for the purpose of monitoring the provision of education to children of compulsory school age in their area who are not educated at a school or under section 19.

(2) Regulations may make provision about maintenance of the register.

(3) The regulations may, in particular, make provision about amendment of the register.

(4) In this Act—

“home-educated child” means a child all of whose education is provided otherwise than at a school, and not under section 19;

“home education register” means a register maintained under this section.