Parents who home educate their children should not be forced to register with their local council, MPs have said.

The Commons schools select committee said local authority registration for England’s home educators – planned as compulsory – should be voluntary.

However the MPs supported the requirement that parents should provide a statement of their “intended approach” to their child’s education.

Home educators are angry at plans for compulsory registration

The Badman review recommended children be sent to school if parents did not meet certain standards.

It was also controversial in its suggestion that children who are home educated were at greater risk from harm than youngsters who went to school.

The select committee said the lack of information available on the numbers of home schooled children – no-one knows how many there are – made it “unsafe” for the review to have reached such a conclusion.

Earlier this month, more than 70 MPs handed in petitions from opponents of compulsory registration for families who educate their children at home … Continue Reading

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