NO
ANN NEWSTEAD, TRUSTEE AND SPOKESPERSON, EDUCATION OTHERWISE
Home schooling is already regulated. When you take a child out of school to be taught at home, there are lengthy and complicated procedures to go through, which involve welfare visits. The problem for the home-schooling sector is that regulation and local authority support is available, but how councils adhere to this is patchy. Help is to be welcomed, but there is no case for greater regulation, such as more visits and spot checks.
YES
COLIN GREEN, DIRECTOR OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES, COVENTRY CITY COUNCIL, AND SAFEGUARDING SPOKESMAN, ASSOCIATION OF DIRECTORS OF CHILDREN'S SERVICES
The Association of Directors of Children's Services welcomes the government's review of home education. Children educated at home do not benefit from the safeguards that come with being in school. The vast majority are well cared for and educated. However, a minority are not. Local authorities' ability to safeguard and support those children is severely constrained by current guidance and regulation. While home-educated children may not be at greater risk of abuse, they are at greater risk of any abuse not being identified and action then not being taken to protect the children.
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