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Home education: England

Registration and monitoring

1          

In Chapter 3 of Part 1 of EA 1996 (local authorities), after section 19 there is

inserted—

“Home education: registration and monitoring

19A     

Maintenance of home education register

(1)   

A local authority in England shall maintain a register for the purpose

of monitoring the provision of education to children of compulsory

school age in their area who are not educated at a school or under

section 19.

(2)   

Regulations may make provision about maintenance of the register.

(3)   

The regulations may, in particular, make provision about

amendment of the register.

(4)   

In this Act—

“home-educated child” means a child all of whose education is

provided otherwise than at a school, and not under section

19;

“home education register” means a register maintained under

this section.

19B     

Entry of child’s details on home education register

(1)   

This section applies where—

(a)   

a parent of a child in the area of a local authority in England

has applied to the authority, in the prescribed manner, for the

child’s details to be entered on their home education register,

(b)   

the child is of compulsory school age, and

(c)   

it appears to the authority that the child is, or is intended to

be while still of compulsory school age, a home-educated

child.

(2)   

Unless the authority consider—

(a)   

that the child is within subsection (6) or (7), or

(b)   

that subsection (8) applies to the child’s application,

they shall enter the prescribed details relating to the child on their

home education register.