Member

Finally, Amendment 418 addresses the very real issue of false or malicious reporting. It proposes that, where a report against a home-educating family is found to be knowingly false or made in bad faith, the reporting individual may face a civil penalty. I need to make it clear that my understanding is that local authority offices—and I praise them for the great work that they do; I am not trying to knock them—are protected in law because they are assumed to be acting always in good faith.