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  • Children taught at home should be recorded on a compulsory register, England’s children’s commissioner has said. Anne Longfield says that “We need to know who these children are, where they are, whether they are safe and if they are getting the education they need to succeed in life.” Read the report Invisible Children to find out more.

Our investigations have revealed thousands of children are ‘off the grid’ because they are being home schooled. The numbers are rocketing and no-one knows how they are doing academically or even if they’re safe. Many are being off-rolled. It also seems that a relatively small number of schools may be responsible for this sharp rise in children leaving school for ‘home education’ in this way.

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