Asked by: Jason McCartney (Conservative - Colne Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representative bodies for home education took part in the recent discussions with her Department.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Meetings have been held by Departmental officials with: the policy committee of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services; officers of Darlington Borough Council; the children’s services scrutiny committee of the City of Westminster; and two regional forums of local authority elective home education officers, one for London and the South East and the other for the West Midlands.
Asked by: Jason McCartney (Conservative - Colne Valley)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent representations on issues other than safeguarding her Department she has received from bodies representing home schooling.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department for Education has had no representations recently from bodies representing home schooling.