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Home education should be supported, particularly by local authorities, because support is the very best way for a local authority to get to see the children concerned and understand their level of education. In local authorities that work well with home-educated children—there are a good number of them—the local authority is involved in making sure that activities and opportunities are available to home-educated children. That means that those children get seen in an organised way by properly trained professionals, who are capable of making an assessment of their general level of education.