LGA RESPONDS TO CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER REPORT ON CHILDREN EDUCATED AT HOME
Responding to the Children’s Commissioner report on children educated at home, Cllr Anntoinette Bramble, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board, said:
“Councils fully support the rights of parents to educate their children in the best way that they see fit, and the vast majority of parents who home educate their children do a fantastic job, and work well with their local council to make sure that a good education is being provided.
“But for the minority of children where this is not the case, councils have long-called for the powers and appropriate funding to enter homes or other premises to check a child’s schooling, and make sure they aren’t being taught in unsuitable or dangerous environments.
“Placing a legal duty on parents to register home-schooled children with their local authority would also help councils to monitor how children are being educated and prevent them from disappearing from the oversight of services designed to keep them safe.”
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