Elective Home Education (EHE)

If a child is of compulsory school age, parents and carers have a legal responsibility to ensure that their child receives a full-time, appropriate education. Parents have a right to choose to educate their children at home rather than at school.

Home education is also called Elective Home Education (EHE).

If parents decide to electively home educate their child, they have a duty to provide the funding and arrangements.

Parents should never feel forced or actively encouraged to electively home educate their child. Parents should not feel pressured to remove a child from a school’s roll to avoid prosecution for non-attendance, or to avoid formal exclusion. This is sometimes called ‘off rolling’ and should be reported to the Local Authority, if you feel pressured to remove your child from the school roll.

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