Our school has also stopped issuing homework. It is pointless and achieves nothing.
Only exception should be practicing numberwork in daily life situations, practice counting, tables, problem solving, and reading everything they can whether its recipe books, toy magazines, newspapers, trade magazines, whatever interests them. Whether it is a school scheme or books chosen at home, reading anything will help.
Children need to have fun and play after school, be with their friends and family. You can still do "homework by doing the basics as mentioned above".
There is no point to children filling in worksheets, it upsets them, demotivates them and causes so much family friction.
For those parents who want their child to study at home there are thousands of options available that are interesting without having stuff sent home from school that doesnt interest them.
Teachers have so much to do and know the hassle it causes. They know which children will do the homework and which ones wont. The ones that do the homework are often the ones that dont need to do it. The ones that could perhaps do with the extra help quite often are the ones that dont get it at home (obviously this doesnt apply to all families).
If a child needs "homework" it should be specific tasks assigned to that child to help with a specific topic being covered in school as additional learning support.
Any homework they do get should be investigative project work only.
My opinion only!