Question follow-through · 56683

Home Education: Standards

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children who are home educated have access to (a) resources and (b) support comparable to those available to children educated in schools.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body
Department for Education
Tabled
2 Jun 2025
Target answer date
9 Jun 2025
Answer
9 Jun 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 2 Jun 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that children who are home educated have access to (a) resources and (b) support comparable to those available to children educated in schools.

  2. 9 Jun 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 9 Jun 2025

    Answer published

    Home education is a proactive choice made by parents. In electing to home educate they choose to leave the state school system and the associated support and access to facilities which are available as part of having a school place.Special educational nee...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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