The Department for Education will seek to pass legislation at the “earliest opportunity” which will see local authorities legally obliged to maintain a register of children of compulsory school age who are not registered at specified categories of schools such as state schools, registered independent schools and non-maintained special schools.
The announcement comes following a public consultation on the introduction of a compulsory EHE register that garnered more than 4,500 responses from local authorities, schools, charities, parents and young people.
Of 145 local authorities in England who replied to the consultation, 96 per cent backed plans for an EHE register on the grounds it would improve safeguarding and the standard of education for children not in school.
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