Home educators have been campaigning against the reforms since it emerged earlier this year that they would deprive lone parents of income support when their youngest child turns seven. The campaigners petitioned Gordon Brown to make them exempt from new rules.
But in a statement last week the Prime Minister's office rejected their calls: "While the government recognises lone parents have the right to home educate their children, it does not provide funding for them to do so."
Welfare reform minister Stephen Timms said parents would be able to home educate and work at the same time.
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