In March 2025 the Welsh government made slight changes to the home education guidance and also began displaying it as a web page instead of a download which can be read HERE https://www.gov.wales/elective-home-education-guidance-html
My previous page about the 2023 home education guidance for Wales redirects to this updated page. The old page has been archived and can be read as a PDF here.
Having it as a web page is more accessible for the reader (and also for the Welsh government to share with eg the Westminster government) but also from the government’s point of view a page can be changed more easily than a PDF
I can’t see any significant changes but there are some formatting differences as follows
- hyperlinks and endnotes rather than footnotes (a logical consequence of making it available in the browser rather than as a paged PDF)
- more use of bullet points for clarity rather than a dense paragraph (again I assume a consequence of making it available onscreen rather than as a download)
- updated references to curriculum for Wales
- at some points making 1 paragraph into 2 or vice versa (so it ends up at same number but at interim points will not necessarily be the same if the browser version has got ahead and then makes a longer paragraph or incorporates 2 paragraphs to reset)
- occasionally there are slight differences in phrasing for clarity eg on ALN and SAOs