Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what is the status of flexi-schooling in terms of the school roll and pupil funding allocation.

Children who are educated at home can also be registered at school and attend school for part of the week. Such an arrangement is known as ‘flexi-schooling’. Schools are under no obligation to agree to such an arrangement, but some are happy to do so. Schools must enter a pupil on the admission register from the beginning of the first day that the pupil will attend the school; this will include a pupil who is flexi-schooled. Where a school has agreed to a flexi-schooling arrangement, the time a child spends being educated at home should be recorded as absence.

On the day of the autumn school census, schools record every pupil who is entered on the admission register. A school will attract per pupil funding if a pupil is recorded in the autumn school census.