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My final point is about organising supportive and informal events where local authority officials can meet home-educating families and facilitate question and answer sessions between home educators and officials. It is important that home-educating families are not judged by some official from far away purely on the basis of forms. That does not mean to say that officials should be meeting every home-educating family in the neighbourhood, but they should be meeting their representatives and groups. I am told that there are in excess of 1,000 home-educating groups around the country which are in touch with a lot of home-educating people. There are only 110,000 home educators, so if there are 1,000 groups then we can see that they are fairly well in touch with the people who, in a sense, they represent.