Question follow-through · 900341

Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to identify children who are educated outside school.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 3 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 9 Sept 2024
Answer: 9 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

3 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to identify children who are educated outside school.
9 Sept 2024
Target answer date
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9 Sept 2024
Answer published
The department is committed to giving every child the best start in life, regardless of where and how they are educated. We cannot ignore the rising numbers of home-educated children and official data which shows that growing numbers of children have been...

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