There are much much bigger more shocking issues in the sort of schools me and mine have access to.
Our HE journey started officially with one Dc failed educationally, refused exam level syllabus as supposedly unable, many batterings and broken bones, with the school onsite police officer not recording because school said SEN pupil!
Eventually ended up being escorted by armed police to get them in and out alive but also used as a walking target to trying to get to the gun used against them.
Three teachers were left off on long term sick because of what was done to DC in front of them, and we still have the repercussions of bullets fired into our home. You cannot have any idea of the desperation that led me to say 'alive is all that matters now, sue me.'
I am the negligent shit parent who for years believed the lies that there was little that could be done, they had to go to school, and we could hope for no more than we had.
This was a SEN DC who kept themself to themself, who became the target of a post code lottery gang for being supposedly 'pretty.'
No 'improvement plan' keeps a child alive in those schools once targeted.
Later two several of those involved ended up with life sentences for a particularly despicable crime against a girl with LD's and a central London public stabbing. Two others targeted, died. But one was outside the school entrance, the other on the way home, not on the premises, so...
The long term answer offered was DC could go to the local PRU where they and mainly violent excluded kids 'could learn life skills from each other.' This would be 'good for Dc as they should expect this stuff to be their adult life too.'
Prior to that no one had done well, but we'd tried. But two SDC's had been off rolled (I now know illegally) one profoundly dyslexic, one bullied into MH issues, so we started then really, but didn't call it HE.
When I finally stopped being a shit parent and stood up for my children,
I discovered the lack of basic intelligence and attitudes of the people in our LA supposedly working for the benefit and protection of children with problems at school.
They seemed to be a modern version of truancy officers with no or little knowledge of education, SEN, children, or anything beyond abusing power. Also incapable of writing basic formal letters in a way that could be understood.
You would expect reasonable levels of intelligence and knowledge. It was sorely lacking, replaced with bluster, bullying, shouting, and manipulation in spadefuls. This was the 'oversight.'
They are the department who are tasked with following up the kids that schools have often illegally off rolled, or where parents involved with EWO's and fines give up and withdraw from the state system because they can't afford the fight anymore, or where there are legitimate concerns about a child's removal from school. (The first two groups very often contain children and parents who would love to be able to properly access school, as well as all the ones that school, and sometimes parents as well, have entirely failed.) They also supervise Home ed.
MC parents here just don't engage and get away with it. WC parents often have less options.
I educated myself (helped by MN) and took them to court in the end.
The judges didn't find them competent or truthful witnesses and awarded financial control of the APWA as requested, as best interests of DC.
In exchange I voluntarily agreed to produce sample lesson plans with learning objectives, and examples of work.
We had to go back to court because:
I was exploded at that they couldn't be expected to understand plainly written learning objectives.
The learning was ahead of what they believed DC capable of because school said incapable because SEN.
My Dc wouldn't look them in the eyes (diagnosed ASD) so they didn't believe anything they said about their learning.
The work was too advanced and I should be teaching to what they couldn't do, not what they could, like school had been. (spiky learning profiles require spiky learning actually)
Engineering, further maths and basic Latin was "hot housing" and "our" children "didn't need them for their futures" so it should stop immediately.
Five GCSE's was what we should be doing, because SEN kids do five.
The LA couldn't find anyone above a primary teacher to asses progress at (I)GCSE level, so claimed 'No progress seen' implying a lack of it existing.
I'd used "fancy words" to confuse them in court and they found out what it meant, so claimed court order void. (I'd described them as "disingenuous.")
The court stripped them of supervision. We spent the next few years getting friendly conversation, coffee and cake in chambers instead, and using it as another free leaning op.
If you want better supervision of Home Ed, we're all going to have to pay for better and competent people to do it, at least in some places.
Reality is birth rate is falling, schools are closing as a result, so making home ed difficult or illegal is on the cards to prop up poor government planning and the state of education, and many schools.