Question follow-through · 20719
Home Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the recording and monitoring of the number of children being home-schooled in England; and whether her Department has identified any gaps in this data coll
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 2 Jan 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the recording and monitoring of the number of children being home-schooled in England; and whether her Department has identified any gaps in this data coll
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Jan 2025
Answer published
Keeping children safe is an absolute priority for the government.The department’s elective home education data collection shows that in autumn 2024, local authorities reported 111,700 children in home education. While this data collection is mandatory for...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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