Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans further to regulate home schooling.

The new Children Not in School measures of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026, when implemented, will require local authorities to maintain registers of children who are not in school, including home-educated children, require parents of eligible children to give information for these registers, introduce the first ever duty on local authorities to provide support for home educating families, and introduce a consent requirement for the most vulnerable children. As with all new policy, we will keep the implementation of these measures and any evidence of a need for further regulation under review.