De- registering

[angelstar]

If you start Education at the end of primary school and never apply for a comprehensive school place, do you have to tell anyone?

Thanks
Linda

I know you don't have to up here in Scotland, but I couldn't say for sure about England.

I asked advice on this for another poster.

Under the new pupil registration regulations if a child has been offered a place at a school, even if it has never attended
then the child will be deemed to have been registered.

As far as I understand it, as long as you have not been offered a place at any school, you do not have to do anything.

If asked you might say that you were making private arrangements and then that may be taken to mean you are going down the private school route.

However, if the Government's database Contact Point does come to work as they hope it will, in joining up all the information from different agencies, your child and other. up to now, unknown home educating families, may be found with the 'powers that be' then asking questions about the child's place of education.