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Home Education

Volume 460: debated on Tuesday 22 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of children who receive education at home; and if he will make a statement. (138564)

We do not collect information about the number of children whose education is arranged by their parents. A recent study on the prevalence of home education in England, conducted by York Consulting estimated that there were around 16,000 children being educated at home that were known to the local authority. We have not made any estimate of the number of home educated children that are not known to their local authority.