Should I expect a call regarding my 3 1/2 year old (*home schooling*)?

[pinkdolly]

My DD1 will be 4 in June.
She is not on the list for any local schools, as I am home schooling. I have not contacted the LEA regarding this (still mulling it over, as not sure they need to know), what has anyone else done regarding this?
I know my sister who has a 7 year old DD had a phonecall asking which school she would be attending. But as yet I haven't heard anything.

Should I be expecting a call?

Pinkdolly, dd3 and dd4 were never registered and I had no phone call or even visits from our LEA despite them being aware they were to be HE'd as my eldest two dds are also home educated. Mind you, this may be because the LEA appear to have forgotten about us and we havent had a visit for 3 years... am in no hurry to remind them.

Hi Pinkdolly,
I considered HE-ing my DD. You do not have to tell anyone that you are HE-ing your child if they have never been registered at a school before.
For example - if I HE'd my daughter, I would have to de-register her from school and I would then have a yearly visit from the LEA to make sure that she is being taught and not just lazing around at home doing nothing. However, if I had never enrolled her at school at all and she had been HE'd from the start, then she would have been non-existent from the LEA's point of view so I would have had no visits from them. And yes, this is perfectly legal.

Some sites that may help you are:

\link{http://www.ukhome-educators.co.uk\UK Home Educators}
\link{http://www.educationotherwise.co.uk\Education Otherwise}

She would n't legally need to be in school/formal education until Sept 2007 so they can't/won't ask you much before then , I think.