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Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
Guidance for local authorities and schools about children educated at home.
How local authorities can share aggregate data on children who receive elective home education (EHE) and those children missing education (CME).
Information on the number and characteristics of children in elective home education (EHE) in England.
Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel paper about safeguarding and elective home education.
We’re seeking views on proposed changes to the non-statutory elective home education guidance for local authorities and parents.
Information on the number of children in elective home education (EHE) in England. Data is presented for both the number of children at a point in time on the Autumn term 2024 census day, and the number of children who...
Your responsibilities with your local council if you want to educate your child at home - sometimes called home schooling
Call for evidence on greater oversight of children whose parents elect to educate them at home, and consultation on revised DfE guidance documents.
The education provision for service children overseas can be categorised as Defence Children Services (DCS) Schools and Settings or non MOD schools locations.
Changing behaviour to help promote early language and literacy development through the home learning environment (HLE).
We are seeking views on a local authority registration system for children who do not attend state-funded or registered independent schools.
This exploratory study investigates the steps that parents, local authorities and schools take in order to move children from secondary school to home education.
An overview of 16 to 19 education funding and how it is calculated.
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