Home Education: Blackpool

(asked on 24th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children are registered in Blackpool local authority as being home schooled.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 3rd March 2020

The information requested is not held by the department. We do not currently collect data on the number of home-educated children.

In the spring of 2019, a consultation was held on proposals for a mandatory register of children not attending state or registered independent schools to help local authorities carry out their responsibilities in relation to children not in school. Almost 5000 responses were received to the consultation which closed in June 2019. They have now been considered and a formal government response document setting out next steps will be issued in due course.

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