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Councils to gain new powers to monitor children not in school

A range of new safeguards for children not in school, including the introduction of local home education registers, have been unveiled by the government through the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Some youth bodies used the call for evidence as a chance to express frustrations about existing guidance. Picture: Adobe Stock
Under the bill, councils will be required to maintain a register of children educated outside mainstream school. Picture: AdobeStock/eeeu - Adobe Stock

The much-anticipated bill, which has been published today (17 December), also contains measures to strengthen multi-agency safeguarding arrangements and information sharing, boost support for children in social care placements and tighten regulations around private sector children’s homes. 

It is the proposals to improve agencies’ monitoring of home-educated children or those not in school that have taken centre stage, following the surge in the number being taught outside the classroom since the Covid-19 pandemic. LINK

Through the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, local authorities will be required to maintain a register of home-educated children and details of who is teaching them. 

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