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Home Education: Registration

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a home education register.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
16 Dec 2024
Answer
19 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Dec 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a home education register.

  2. 16 Dec 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The government is committed to the introduction of statutory children not in school registers, maintained by each local authority in England. These registers will include those children who are being educated at home, and parents will have a duty to provi...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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