Member

There is no requirement for home-educated children to undertake national examinations and, as I have said, some opt not to follow that route. That means that outcomes are not separately reported as they would not fully reflect this group and would not be a true indicator of the performance of home-educated children. It is interesting that noble Lords have rightly emphasised the range of types of learning that parents undertake as part of home education. It may well be difficult to represent only that, and probably a false view of home education to represent only that, through the publication of data relating to GCSE passes in a group that is particularly selective about those who take the GCSE exams.