United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 216349
Home Education
Introduced
28 November 2014
Last action
4 December 2014 · Answer
Status
Answered
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Education
Source updated
4 December 2014
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parents were (a) investigated and (b) prosecuted for failing to ensure that their children were receiving insufficient hours of education whilst being homeschooled in each of the last five years.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
28 November 2014
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many parents were (a) investigated and (b) prosecuted for failing to ensure that their children were receiving insufficient hours of education whilst being homeschooled in each of the last five years.
Source: Commons
4 December 2014
Answer
If a child of compulsory school age is being educated at home but is not receiving a full-time education as required by section 7 of the Education Act 1996, the appropriate remedy is not prosecution but the serving of a school attendance order. If the par...
Source: Written answer
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
No documents linked.
Sponsors
- · Department for Education · Answering body
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2014-11-28/216349
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/166723
- uk · wq-166723 · source updated 4 December 2014