Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 13841

Home Education

Tabled: 12 November 2024
Answered: 20 November 2024

Question

Steve Darling

Liberal DemocratTorbay

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of recent trends in the number of families choosing elective home education for their children on (a) local authorities, (b) schools and (c) the wider educat

Answer

Stephen Morgan
The department has collected termly data from local authorities concerning their cohorts of home-educated children since autumn 2022.The most recent published data shows an estimated 92,000 children in home education in October 2023, a rise of around 12,0...

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