Question follow-through · 28872
Home Education: Neurodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential (a) administrative and (b) psychological impact of children not being on school registers on home schooling families of neurodivergent children.
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 10 Feb 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential (a) administrative and (b) psychological impact of children not being on school registers on home schooling families of neurodivergent children.
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Feb 2025
Answer published
There is currently no duty on parents to notify local authorities when they have elected to home educate their child. The ‘Children Not in School’ measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill will help remedy this by placing a duty on local autho...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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