Member

Government Amendment 167 would require local authorities to consider the home and other education settings they are aware of when deciding whether a preliminary notice to a school attendance order should be served. Local authorities will be empowered to request to visit the child in their home as part of this. I appreciate that some of this may be starting to sound familiar, but we are intentionally replicating this requirement and the power to request a home visit throughout the registration and school attendance order processes.