Consultation on a Registration System for Children who do not attend State-funded or Registered Independent Schools (DfE)

The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting on a number of related proposals for legislation which would affect local authorities, parents of children who are not attending state-funded schools or registered independent schools, and proprietors of some education settings.

This is a follow-up to the consultation and call for evidence on elective home education held by the Department for Education in 2018.

The consultation document seeks views on a number of proposals for legislation and the way in which those proposals would be implemented: • the introduction of a duty on local authorities to maintain a register of children of compulsory school age who are not registered at schools of a specified type;

• the introduction of a duty on parents to provide information to their home local authority if their children are within the scope of such a register;

• the introduction of a duty on education settings attended by the children on the register to respond to enquiries from local authorities about the education provided to individual children. The settings in scope would not include those providing supplementary education outside school hours;

• the introduction of a duty on local authorities to provide support to home educating families - if it is requested by such families.

The consultation is now open and closes on 24/06/2019. 

To access it and share your views, please click on the following link: https://consult.education.gov.uk/school-frameworks/children-not-in-school/