Thursday 3rd February 2022

(2 years, 9 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Storey Portrait Lord Storey (LD)
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My Lords, as well as the absentee rates in schools, as the Minister knows we have hundreds of thousands of children not in school at all. They are missing from the system. Some may be home tutored, but we do not know that. What plans have the Government got for those home tutors to register their children, so that we know they are safe and know where they are?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I am pleased to update the House that, this morning, we announced our response to the Children Not in School consultation and have confirmed that we will be setting up a register of home-schooled children.