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Home Education: Registration
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to provide additional funding to local authorities to (a) create and (b) enforce a register of children not in school.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 10 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 20 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to provide additional funding to local authorities to (a) create and (b) enforce a register of children not in school.
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jan 2025
Answer published
The measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill for statutory Children Not in School registers in every local authority in England, and the accompanying duties on parents and out-of-school education providers to provide information for these reg...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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