CYP Now - Home education rise leaving children’s services ‘stretched’, ADCS warns

The number of children being electively home educated has jumped by more than a third compared with last year due to health fears sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic, new figures from the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) shows.

Home education figures have jumped by 38 per cent compared with last year. Picture: Adobe Stock

The increase in the number of children now registered as part of the EHE cohort has left local authority children’s services “stretched”, the ADCS has warned.

According to its elective home education (EHE) survey 2020, some 75,668 children were being taught at home on 1 October, 38 per cent more than on the same date last year.

Of these, 25 per cent had been registered as being home educated since 1 September.

Approximately nine per cent of children and young people being home educated are known to local authority children’s social care, the survey finds, and 14 per cent are known to wider children’s services.

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