The Home Education Advisory Service and Education Otherwise have told policy officials to scrap plans that say home-educated children could be at risk of missing education. The proposals, currently out for consultation, aim to make local authorities more effective at tracking children not receiving a suitable education and list the types of children who could be missing education.
Fiona Nicholson, chair of Education Otherwise, said: "Home-educated children are outside the system, but in a completely different way from children missing education. We are concerned the DCSF has lost sight of its policy objectives. Whether or not home education is 'suitable' is nothing to do with this area of the law and is adequately legislated elsewhere."
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