Member

I suggest that the best approach would be to have as little detail in the register as necessary for safeguarding purposes and to use the annual process for assessment processes, together with regular meetings between the officer and home education groups—I am not suggesting individual home-educating parents but home education groups—which would help set mutual expectations in an area about what is reasonable. At the moment, it seems that the quality of home education is being poorly assessed through a system primarily designed for safeguarding, and it is certainly an add-on, as the noble Lord, Lord Storey, said, to his original Bill of eight years ago, that all this detail is in there.