New estimates by the Department for Education (DfE) show that 97,000 children were home educated in 2023's summer term, an increase of 11,000 compared with the 86,000 home educated at the start of 2023.
Nearly one in four families surveyed by the DfE said lifestyle choice and philosophical or preferential reasons were their primary motivation to educate their children at home.
The DfE's statistics show that 20% of secondary school pupils in England were persistently absent from September to mid-January, an improvement on the 24% of students who were persistently absent the previous year but far above the 11% recorded in 2018-19.
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