The introduction of a duty on councils to maintain a register is one of a number of proposals put forward by ministers to improve the monitoring of home education arrangements and support for families.
Local registers would apply to children who are not receiving their principal education in mainstream schools, mainly state-funded or registered independent schools.
Other measures in a consultation document on children not in school published by the Department for Education today include:
The measures are in response to growing concerns from across the children's sector about the rise in the number of children being home schooled and the difficulties faced by children's services in monitoring the quality of education they receive and to identify and address any safeguarding issues.
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