Member

Amendment 238, also tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Lucas, seeks to remove the requirement for registers to contain information about the education the child is receiving from the parent. But the law is clear that each parent has an equal responsibility in securing a suitable, efficient, full-time education for their child. To help determine whether this is the case, it is important that a local authority can establish how much education is received from each parent, alongside that being received from other people or organisations. We wholly recognise that some parents will use educational styles that are not school-like methods, and we will consider this when setting out in regulations how time must be recorded on registers. Regardless of the style of education, if children are not receiving a suitable education, local authorities must intervene. If fundamental information is unavailable, such as whether the child is receiving education from the parent and how much, the local authority might not have enough information to know whether it should take action.