
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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