Elective home education
Guidance for local authorities and schools about children educated at home.
Applies to England
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This is for:
- local authorities
- schools
It relates to the following legislation:
- European Convention on Human Rights, Article 2 of Protocol 1
- Education Act 1996, Section 7
It details local authorities’ roles, responsibilities and the legislation they need to follow. It also includes information on home schooling funding.
Read the school attendance guidance for more information about how school attendance codes should be used to record the attendance of pupils. Pupils who are being flexi-schooled should be marked as absent from school during the periods when they are receiving home education.
Last updated 2 April 2019 + show all updates
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'Elective home education: guidance for local authorities' and 'Elective home education: guidance for parents' replaces 'Home education guidelines for local authorities'. The funding information remains unchanged.
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First published.