We recognise the rights of parents or carers that want to take responsibility for providing their child’s education instead of sending them to school. This is called elective home education (EHE).

We have a legal duty to be satisfied that all children are receiving a suitable education and this includes children who are being electively home educated.

Further details about our responsibilities for EHE, our policy and procedures can be found in our elective home education policy.

Our guidance for parents and professionals document gives an overview of what our EHE team are likely to consider a suitable education and what might lead them to see the education is unsuitable.

Contact us

If you are thinking of taking responsibility for educating your child yourself and would like to talk to our team about it or have any other questions about EHE, you can contact us by email to ehe@bcpcouncil.gov.uk. We are very happy to talk it through and to answer questions you might have to help you to make an informed decision.

When you get in touch, make sure you provide us with your contact number so that we can reply to you as soon as possible.

If you have already decided to educate your child at home, you can let us know online.