
Strengthening Home Education, a new report by the House of Commons Education Select Committee, warns that some families face being forced into home-schooling due to a lack of support for children with SEND and the practice of off-rolling”.
Off-rolling has previously been described by Ofsted as “removing a pupil from the school roll without using a permanent exclusion, when the removal is primarily in the best interests of the school, rather than the best interests of the pupil”.
The new report by MPs warns that “an ‘astonishing’ lack of data means the government is unable to say with confidence that a suitable education is being provided to every child”.
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