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These are not anomalies. They are symptoms of a system without oversight. An independent ombudsman for home educators would provide a route to recourse for home educators when their local authority has overstepped the mark. Amendment 381 responds to this by requiring that any safeguarding panel reviewing cases involving home-educated children must include at least one person with direct home education experience. Without this, we risk panels acting on myth and assumption that home education means isolation, that learning must look like what it looks like in school and that anything outside the mainstream is a threat.