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The school attendance order process is only commenced with the issuing of a preliminary notice when it does not appear to a local authority that a child is receiving a suitable education, or where there are serious safeguarding concerns and it appears to the local authority that it would be in the child’s best interests to attend school. The measures in the Bill will help ensure that children not in school receive a safe and suitable education; for example, the registers will help identify those children who would otherwise fall through the gaps, and a more efficient school attendance order process will be used to help children who are not receiving a suitable or safe education to promptly receive one.