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/
You may also like
I have rewritten my main page on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill so that all posts and pages about the bill […]
The sentence “this should not be taken as implying that it is the responsibility of parents under s.436A to ‘prove’ that education […]
New post https://edyourself.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/september-2nd-lords-committee-wellbeing-bill/
My written evidence never appeared on the committee website so I secured permission to publish it here https://edyourself.org/bill-committee-evidence-january-2025/