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Educating your child at home ('home schooling'): when to get permission, telling the school, curriculum, SEN.
Your responsibilities with your local council if you want to educate your child at home - sometimes called home schooling
Guidance for local authorities and schools about children educated at home.
Changing behaviour to help promote early language and literacy development through the home learning environment (HLE).
This exploratory study investigates the steps that parents, local authorities and schools take in order to move children from secondary school to home education.
How local authorities can share aggregate data on children who receive elective home education (EHE) and those children missing education (CME).
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.
Call for evidence on greater oversight of children whose parents elect to educate them at home, and consultation on revised DfE guidance documents.
How and when to apply for childcare places and schools.
Get a place for your child at a primary or secondary school - applications, deadlines, admission criteria, appeals and complaints.
Information on the number and characteristics of children in elective home education (EHE) in England.
Understand how to follow safeguarding procedures when planning remote education strategies and teaching remotely.
Explanation of terms used in Ofsted's official and national statistical releases.
The education provision for service children overseas can be categorised as Defence Children Services (DCS) Schools and Settings or non MOD schools locations.
Research into what early years settings could do to better support parents in developing their children's learning at home.
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