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Home Education: Registration

Asked by Kerry McCarthyLabourDepartment for EducationTabled Answered 20 November 2025UIN 90675

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to send information to home educating parents on the registration measures within the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

Answered by Josh MacAlister

Following the Bill’s attainment of Royal Assent, the department intends to make regulations and publish statutory guidance outlining how local authorities must publicise the registers and the duties of parents in relation to the registers.

We will consult on the guidance ahead of implementation, so home educating parents can share their views on how they would like to receive information on the registration measures.

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