Officially, almost 60,000 children were being home educated in England at any one time in 2018, but with no legal register the report suggests there may have in fact been up to 80,000.
The number of children known by councils to be home educated was 27 per cent higher in 2018 than in 2017.
In a new report, Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England, has called for stronger measures to tackle ‘off-rolling’ of children who may threaten schools’ exam results and league table positions, as the number of children being home educated has been found to have doubled in the last five years.
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