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Home Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure that home educators' right to privacy is protected, in the context of the proposed home schooling register.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
8 May 2025
Target answer date
12 May 2025
Answer
30 May 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 8 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she plans to take to ensure that home educators' right to privacy is protected, in the context of the proposed home schooling register.

  2. 12 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 30 May 2025

    Answer published

    The department takes its data protection obligations seriously and is committed to high standards of information security, privacy and transparency. All data received by the department, including as part of the children not in school (CNIS) registers, wil...

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