Education is a fundamental right for every child and we recognise that parents have the right to choose to educate their child at home rather than at school. Parents are responsible for ensuring that their children receive a suitable education. Where parents have chosen to home educate, we want the home-educated child to have a positive experience. We believe this is best achieved where parents and the local authority recognise each other's rights and responsibilities and work together.
Parents may decide to exercise their right to home educate their child from a very early age and so the child may not have been previously enrolled at school. They may also elect to home educate at any other stage up to the end of compulsory school age. Parents are not required to register or seek approval from the local authority to educate their children at home. However, the Law requires parents to de-register their child by writing to the head teacher of the school the child attends. Parents who choose to educate their children at home must be prepared to assume full financial responsibility, including bearing the costs of any public examinations. Parents must also ensure that their children receive full-time education for as long as they are being educated at home.

Home Education was formed to offer a unique reference point on expert advice on home schooling.Taking the plunge to begin teaching your child from home can seem like a difficult prospect. Some questions that might immediately crop up will be about the legality of a home education, and issues surrounding the requirement of qualifications for the teaching parent.The answers to the questions can all be found in Home education, a gateway to articles on every question you could think of surrounding issues impacting your child's home education. Home education was created to provide you with a trustworthy and accurate reference point where you will be able to read advice and information that you can trust.

Home educated children must receive full time education from the start date of what would be the school term following their 5th birthday, if they were in school. Compulsory education continues .your decision to home educate or if you are interested in receiving more information. Please state your child's full name, date of birth, date when it is proposed that home education will commence and where applicable, the name of the last school attended.If your child is in school you must formally de-register by writing to the headteacher and say that you intend to teach your child at home. Your child will then be removed from the roll and the headteacher will inform the local education authority.Failure to notify the school in writing of your intentions to educate at home could result in prosecution for failing to ensure their attendance.
If your child has never been to school, you do not have to take any action prior to starting home education but it would be appreciated if you would inform the ensure that your child's record is updated and to prevent a place being allocated for him or her in a school.