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Home Education: Registration

Commons · Question 57754 · Tabled 5 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Official record

Answered 23 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Max Wilkinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of a children not in school register in preventing abuse of home schooled children.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Morgan, 23 Jun 2025

Home education is not an inherent safeguarding risk. However, some children who have been withdrawn from school under the guise of home education have been seriously harmed or died due to abuse or neglect, and action is needed.Compulsory ‘children not in ...