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Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children are home schooled in each local education authority area.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
24 Jul 2024
Target answer date
26 Jul 2024
Answer
1 Aug 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 24 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of children are home schooled in each local education authority area.

  2. 26 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Aug 2024

    Answer published

    The department publishes information on children in elective home education (EHE), which can be accessed here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/elective-home-education.The number of children in EHE, at any point in the 2...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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