Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that electively home-educated children will be able to access the proposed Vocational GCSEs as private candidates, including any practical, controlled or non-exam assessment required as part of those qualifications.

As with existing GCSEs and other formal qualifications, electively home-educated children seeking to take a vocational GCSE as a private candidate would be expected to enter through an approved examination centre.

Any practical, controlled or non-exam assessment forming part of the qualification would need to be completed through that same centre.