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Increased support for SEND pupils needed to improve home education, MPs say

Greater support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and tougher measures to tackle off-rolling have been recommended by MPs to improve home education in England.
Robert Halfon: Teaching at home must never be a fall-back option for parents forced into it. Picture: Parliament UK
Robert Halfon: Teaching at home must never be a fall-back option for parents forced into it. Picture: Parliament UK

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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