Posted on 01/06/2023 9:22:41 PM PST by DoodleBob
Children could be left without welfare checks due to homeschooling, the government has been warned, as new figures show a surge in the numbers being educated at home.
England’s children’s commissioner and education unions have raised concerns over the safeguarding of home-educated pupils and warned some could drop off the radar of authorities without increased protections.
Numbers of home-educated students have jumped by 40 per cent since 2018, Freedom of Information requests reveal. In the 171 local authorities that provided data, there were 81,250 children learning at home in 2022 compared to 57,531 four years ago, before the pandemic.
But the true numbers could be higher as...it is not compulsory for parents to inform local authorities.
The government scrapped plans for a formal register when the Schools Bill was abandoned earlier this month.
Parents are not obliged to tell local authorities or schools that they are homeschooling their children, but it is recommended. If schools know a child has been taken out for homeschooling, they are obliged to tell the local council.
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Dame Rachel de Souza, the children’s commissioner, said ...“Those that choose to exercise their right within the law to home educate are indeed entitled to do that, however, I do think that it is important to know who they are and where they are to make sure that children are accounted for and have support if it is needed.”
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The union leader said:...“Of particular concern is the potential for safeguarding issues, for example, where children who are not in school are in fact being taught in unregistered settings.”
A Department for Education spokesperson said:...“This will not impact the right of parents who want to educate their children at home, provided it is done with the child’s best interests in mind and the education is suitable.”
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
And the children in the system seem a bit “lost” IMHO...
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Wow. How did anyone survive without government?
Who does welfare checks on the kids in the public schools?
Oh right they check themselves
The government so “warned” should tell these people to sit down, shut up, and do their jobs, and leave these parents alone.
So how many 6 year old home schooled Children are shooting their teachers? It is those that are in the system that are lost.
The parents of the “good kids” don’t want them to have to suffer the tyranny of the “bad kids”
FYI, this article is about England, not the United States.
OH NO!!!. How can children be exposed to fat homofag drag queens reading pornography if they are home schooled?
On average, they’re safer and better off with their parents. Homeschooling also increased in the U.S.A. during the epidemic.
Besides, it can't happen here.
Translation: We will lose the ability to indoctrinate them with communist propaganda and will lose funding for teachers.
If my kid was in the public schools system, I would need special medication in order to sleep at night.
The good news is, the kids can avoid the coming children’s RFID chip implant.
Best to leave them in the “system” where the pedophiles have easy access.
Government run schools are full of criminal teachers and administrators. Pull your kids now else lose them to leftist idiology.
It is homeschooling parents who are rearing the next generation of great leaders. The govt. wants to get their grooming hands on those leaders while they are still children and vulnerable to prevent the destruction of liberty they have planned for us all.
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