Home Education

(asked on 4th December 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is their estimate of the number of children who are excluded and subsequently home-schooled.


Answered by
Lord Agnew of Oulton Portrait
Lord Agnew of Oulton
This question was answered on 12th December 2017

The department does not collect information on the number of children that are home educated. Parents are not under any duty to register with their local council when they home educate and so there is no reliable basis on which to collect statistics.

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