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Home Education: Travellers

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of children of peripatetic families not in school who will be captured by the proposed register of home schooled children.

answeredDepartment for Education

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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

  1. 10 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of children of peripatetic families not in school who will be captured by the proposed register of home schooled children.

  2. 14 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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