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Secondly, the Bill also says that flexi-schooling pupils must be registered with the local authority on the register that we will no doubt discuss at greater length later, with all the bureaucracy, paperwork and process that is proposed to go with that. Again, that seems an inefficient, costly and unnecessary duplication of oversight and data since, as I say, flexi-schooling pupils are registered at school full time already and are being seen at school by education professionals who have agreed that a flexi-schooling arrangement is in the child’s best interest. Flexi-schoolers have regular reviews with the school, families already share evidence of learning at home and the school can end the arrangement at any time if it has any safeguarding concerns or thinks the education is unsuitable in any other way, so it is a very different sort of arrangement.