Career Connect undertakes research into the support needs of home-educated pupils
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Over the past year, Career Connect, which provides careers information, advice and guidance in the North West, worked in partnership with Capacity, an organisation specialising in innovation of public and third sector services, to understand the needs of families and carers who felt they had no other choice but to remove their child from school.
Career Connect wanted to undertake the research because the number of children and young people who are electively home educated (EHE) has risen from 37,500 in 2016 to an estimated 115,542 in 2021, according to figures from the Association of Directors of Children's Services. While the decision to home educate can be a positive choice for some families, for others it is a solution to a bad experience at school.
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