Teachers voice fears over surge in home-schooled children
by Anna Davis
Apr 19, 2024
3 minutes
School leaders have sounded a warning over the number of children being home schooled saying many are not getting a proper education.
London headteachers are doing “everything they can” to prevent children who are persistently absent from being taken out of school permanently to be home educated, they said.
It comes as the number of children being home schooled in England in the last academic year reached more than 126,000 – an increase of almost 10,000 on the previous year,
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