Member

Government Amendment 175 would ensure that local authorities must have regard to statutory guidance when exercising their functions relating to the home education consent requirement, the pilot scheme for mandatory meetings, children not in school registration and school attendance orders. This would allow a single, coherent statutory guidance document to be developed and consulted on, showing how the new duties fitted together and supporting consistent practice across local authorities. It would also give parents clearer, more accessible information about how the system worked as a whole. I beg to move government Amendment 120.