Special Educational Needs: Home Education
(asked on 10th October 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many SEND children without an Education, Health, and Care plan are home schooled.
This question was answered on 18th October 2025
The latest statistics on elective home education (EHE), including information on characteristics, are published here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/elective-home-education/2024-25-autumn-term
For autumn term 2024/25, 16% of EHE children were recorded as special educational needs support or special educational needs without an education, health and care plan. This compares with 14% of the overall school population.