On January 7th 2026 the government tabled amendments to the Wellbeing Bill setting out details of a pilot scheme with a limited number of local authorities requiring parent AND CHILD to meet the LA before a child could be deregistered for home education. Assuming worst case scenario this passes into law, it will probably be 2028 before this starts. NEW PAGE HERE https://edyourself.org/pilot-mandatory-meeting/
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The Wellbeing Bill currently going through parliament would introduce a consistent identifying number for children. Read more here https://edyourself.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/unique-identifier-childrens-wellbeing-bill/
The Minister gave assurances about follow-up letters in the debate on September 2nd NEW POST HERE https://edyourself.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/will-write-letters-from-day-9-committee/
Second Reading in the Lords has been announced for May 1st with 37 peers on the speakers list so far. Read more […]
NEW post https://edyourself.wordpress.com/2025/08/31/changes-to-child-benefit-rules-post-16/ My updated Child Benefit page is here https://edyourself.org/child-benefit/ and my updated Universal Credit page is here https://edyourself.org/universal-credit/