Member

Amendment 316 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Storey, seeks to create a duty that would enable home-educated children to access national examinations on a parity with students with a state-funded school place. We share this desire to provide some support to home-educating families. That is why we are introducing a support duty, which will require local authorities to provide advice and information about a home-educated child’s education if their parent requests it. This could include guidance on how home-educated children can access exams, for example. Local authorities have discretion to provide support over and above that required by the new support duty.