Blogs
Tag Cloud
Press
ADCS LOGO LG
✕
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • Council of Reference
    • Membership
      • ebulletin
      • Get Involved
    • Policy Committees
      • Research
    • Regions
  • News & Publications
  • Meetings & Events
  • Directory
    • General Contacts
    • Directors of Children’s Services
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications England
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications Wales
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications Scotland
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • Council of Reference
    • Membership
      • ebulletin
      • Get Involved
    • Policy Committees
      • Research
    • Regions
  • News & Publications
  • Meetings & Events
  • Directory
    • General Contacts
    • Directors of Children’s Services
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications England
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications Wales
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications Scotland
✕
ADCS LOGO
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • Council of Reference
    • Membership
      • ebulletin
      • Get Involved
    • Policy Committees
      • Research
    • Regions
  • News & Publications
  • Meetings & Events
  • Directory
    • General Contacts
    • Directors of Children’s Services
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications England
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications Wales
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications Scotland
✕
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • Council of Reference
    • Membership
      • ebulletin
      • Get Involved
    • Policy Committees
      • Research
    • Regions
  • News & Publications
  • Meetings & Events
  • Directory
    • General Contacts
    • Directors of Children’s Services
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications England
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications Wales
    • Out of Area Children in Care Notifications Scotland

Comment on Schools Week EHE figures

February 23, 2024
Press

Heather Sandy, Chair of the ADCS Education Policy Committee said:

“The number of children being educated at home was significantly rising year on year even before the pandemic and these figures show this trend continuing. However, these figures are simply estimates. We have no way of knowing exactly how many children are being electively home educated, nationally or locally, and local authorities do not have the powers to assure ourselves that children are receiving a suitable education in a safe learning environment. We need a register that gives us a full understanding of the number of children being educated at home at the soonest possibility. Local authorities also need powers to match our responsibilities with regards to these children. Whilst a register in and of itself will not keep children safe, it will help to establish how many children are being educated other than at school and assist with the identification of children who are vulnerable to harm.

“The pandemic has resulted in more parents choosing to educate their children at home, in the ADCS EHE 2021 survey parental concern about Covid-19 was the most common reason behind elective home education closely followed by a philosophical/lifestyle choice. Also, we are now seeing more children who are less engaged with an education system which does not meet the needs of all learners, this is evidenced by the rising number of school exclusions, persistent absenteeism and a year on year increase in the number of children being home educated. Government must work with local authorities and others towards an inclusive education system.”

ENDS

Category
  • News
  • Press
Tags
  • Education
  • EHE
Contact the team
Share

Related posts

Press
July 8, 2025

ADCS responds to Best Start Family Hubs and early child development strategy


Read more
Press
July 2, 2025

ADCS comment on addressing systemic racism and disproportionality


Read more
Press
June 17, 2025

ADCS response to the Casey report on CSE


Read more
Contact us

The Association of Directors

of Children’s Services Ltd

Bloc

17 Marble Street

Manchester

M2 3AW

 

+ 0161 513 4299

Get in touch
Who we are
  • About us
  • Get Involved
  • Regions
  • Membership
  • General Contacts
  • Privacy & Cookie Policy
Our Voice
  • Blogs
  • Consultation Responses
  • News & Publications
  • Press
  • Reports
  • Resources

 Copyright ADCS 2025. All Rights Reserved. Registered in England and Wales. Company number: 06801922. VAT registration number: 948814381

Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}