Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 88242

Home Education

Tabled: 5 November 2025
Answered: 14 November 2025

Question

Esther McVey

ConservativeTatton

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what consultation her Department undertook with parents of home educated children on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Answer

Josh MacAlister
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill includes a proposal for compulsory Children Not in School registers and an accompanying duty on parents to give information for these registers. The department consulted on this proposal as part of its ‘Children N...

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