Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many unregistered schools have been prosecuted in the last year for which figures are available.
The offence of operating an unregistered independent educational establishment is created by section 96 of the Education and Skills Act 2008. There is a related offence, under section 97 of that Act, of intentionally obstructing a person carrying an inspection where it is believed that an offence under section 96 is being committed.
There have been no prosecutions of unregistered schools in the last year involving either of these offences.