Recommendation 11 from the December Casey Review on integration in the UK has called for the registration of home schooled children and standards against which home education should be judged.
The report states: ‘It is extremely concerning that children can be excluded from mainstream education without sufficient checks on their wellbeing and integration. The Government should step up the safeguarding arrangements for children who are removed from mainstream education, and in particular those who do not commence mainstream schooling at all.
Monitor divisive practices
‘All children outside mainstream education should be required to register with local authorities and local authorities duties to know where children are being educated should be increased. It should also consider the standards against which home education is judged, to be clear that divisive practices are not acceptable in any setting.
