"English authorities want mandatory registration for homeschoolers"

lifesitenews.com

Children in the United Kingdom don’t have to go to school.

By law, however, they must be given an education. As the number of British children being educated at home rises, England’s Department of Education wants to establish a mandatory homeschooling registry.

Approximately 60,000 children in England do not attend mainstream schools.

On April 2, the Department of Education began a consultative process in which the English public was invited to comment on proposed legislation that would compel parents of children 'not attending mainstream schools' to register them with their local governments.

The new law would also establish 'associated duties' of parents and tutors.

The Department of Education has also proposed legislation to 'establish a duty to support parents who educate children at home and seek support from their local authority in doing so.'

Led by Education Secretary Damian Hinds, the department said via press release the registry would 'transform' the government’s ability to 'identify and intervene' when a child’s home education wasn’t 'good enough.'

'A register of children not in school will transform a local council’s capacity to identify and intervene where the standard of a child’s education isn’t good enough or, in the rare instances, where they are at risk of harm,' it wrote.

'It will also help the authorities spot young people who may be receiving a solely religious education, attending an unregistered school or not receiving an education at all.'"