3rd August
The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 have been issued and came into force on 1st September. On the last day of Parliament when many schools had already broken up for the summer holidays, the Government confirmed that from the start of the new school year local authorities and schools would have to keep much better track of children who stop going to school. Schools were already supposed to tell the council when a pupil left to be home educated, but there were many other circumstances where schools didn’t have to inform anyone, and somehow the lack of home education registration always ended up getting the blame for these ‘missing children.’ The Government could have proposed a register of home educated children as a way to address these concerns and we know from the consultation responses that a few organisations called for this, so it is significant that the Government chose not to do this and to close the non-home education loopholes in the regulations instead.
Read more here http://edyourself.org/articles/pupilregconsult.php