Member

We seem to be coming to a consensus about this. It will be interesting to see what happens when we go away and return on Report. We must have something that works for us all—for parents and for children—and is not overly bureaucratic. I say this as an aside: I have talked to a number of Ofsted inspectors, the noble Baroness, Lady Spielman, aside, who have said that they can go into a school and know straightaway, without saying anything, whether it is a good school just from the atmosphere in that school. I suspect that, if local authorities had the time and resources to go and visit home educators—that would be challenging and I doubt that it would happen in many cases, though I should like it to happen; I would like to see a relationship between the local authority and home educators—they would know as soon as they went into a house whether a good home education were taking place.