Monthly Archives: March 2024

Here is a one page summary and introduction to the pages on this website about the Wales Children’s Database https://edyourself.org/guide-to-wales-cme-database/ The database consultation closes on April 25th. The Welsh government has still not uploaded a child-friendly version of the consultation

The Welsh government wants GPs to hand over the name, address, date of birth and gender of nearly half a million children. Read more https://edyourself.org/gp-data-half-a-million-children-wales/ + https://edyourself.org/why-include-gps-in-wales-database/ Reminder that the database consultation closes on April 25th

The Welsh government plans to pilot the children’s database in a small number of councils where it will only apply to a few children initially but once section 29 is brought into force, any future government will be free to expand the database as much as it wants. Read more here https://edyourself.org/childrens-database-wales-law-but-not-law/

On Friday March 15th 2024 MP Flick Drummond’s home education bill had its Second Reading in the House of Commons. Read more here about what this means https://edyourself.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/flick-drummond-home-education-bill/

The Wales database proposals will have significant impact on home educating families who are already known to the LA. This may or may not have been intended. Read more here https://edyourself.org/wales-database-impact-children-already-known/

See also 1/ https://edyourself.org/wales-cme-database-consultation/ + 2/ https://edyourself.org/legal-powers-for-childrens-database-wales/ + 3/ https://edyourself.org/details-childrens-database-wales/ + 4/ https://edyourself.org/2024-wales-database-compared-with-2020/ + 5/ https://edyourself.org/data-sharing-childrens-database-wales/

The Welsh government has come up with a supposedly scaled-down version of the children’s database it tried to introduce in 2020. I have written a new web page about how the two versions compare https://edyourself.org/2024-wales-database-compared-with-2020/

In response to queries about the changes to the Pupil Registration Regulations and exactly what they mean for home educators, I have just published a new web page https://edyourself.org/pupil-registration-regulations-2024/

The School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024 laid yesterday in parliament will come into force on August 19th 2024 and will replace the 2006 Regulations. Deregistration from mainstream school for home education is currently covered by Regulation 8 (1)(d) 2006 but after August 19th it will be Regulation 9 (1)(f) of the 2024 Regulations.The exact wording for deleting pupil names from the school roll is also slightly different; my page on deregistration has more details https://edyourself.org/deregistration/ (For updated links on deregistration from special school click here https://edyourself.org/taking-child-out-of-special-school/ )