Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 57754

Home Education: Registration

Tabled: 5 June 2025
Answered: 23 June 2025

Question

Max Wilkinson

Liberal DemocratCheltenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of a children not in school register in preventing abuse of home schooled children.

Answer

Stephen Morgan
Home education is not an inherent safeguarding risk. However, some children who have been withdrawn from school under the guise of home education have been seriously harmed or died due to abuse or neglect, and action is needed.Compulsory ‘children not in ...

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