My Immediate Impressions - edited version ;)

Apparently, these recommendations are the ones which immediate action has been asked for by the Badman himself.

Compulsory registration – criminal offence not to re-register every year. Registration to take place en-masse in council properties such as local schools. No automatic deregistration from school in order to stop people going through with the decision . Deregistered children have their academic performance assessed and future capabilities decided on, this information to be released by the school to the local authority. Planned outcomes detailed for each child for each twelve month period. Advice must be taken on planning each child’s yearly planned assessment. This will be forcibly assessed by the LA official at the end of each 12 months. If it is not deemed suitable by that individual, the child will be forced into school.

Any family with previous or known issues such as alcohol/drug use, domestic violence or any other factor considered by the LA official or child-health workers to be an issue will be an automatic bar to home educating. Registration to home educate will be dependent on LA officials deciding subjectively whether or not it should be granted.

Children will be interviewed alone, with no parent or carer present. The LA will have automatic right of access to the home to deem it’s suitability according to their subjective view. Each child must demonstrate both attainment and progress in each twelve months according to set National Curriculum and Key Stage requirements.

Autonomous learning will not be permitted (the reviewer, Badman, does not believe it is successful and discredits all available research that reveals just how successful the autonomous approach is).

Recommendation 1
That the DCSF establishes a compulsory national registration scheme, locally administered, for all
children of statutory school age, who are, or become, electively home educated.
■■ This scheme should be common to all local authorities.
■■ Registration should be renewed annually.
■■ Those who are registering for the first time should be visited by the appropriate local
authority officer within one month of registration.
■■ Local authorities should ensure that all home educated children and young people already
known to them are registered on the new scheme within one month of its inception and
visited over the following twelve months, following the commencement of any new
legislation.
■■ Provision should be made to allow registration at a local school, children’s centre or other
public building as determined by the local authority.
■■ When parents are thinking of deregistering their child/children from school to home
educate, schools should retain such pupils on roll for a period of 20 school days so that
should there be a change in circumstances, the child could be readmitted to the school.
This period would also allow for the resolution of such difficulties that may have prompted
the decision to remove the child from school.
■■ National guidance should be issued on the requirements of registration and be made
available online and at appropriate public buildings. Such guidance must include a
clear statement of the statutory basis of elective home education and the rights and
responsibilities of parents.
■■ At the time of registration parents/carers/guardians must provide a clear statement of
their educational approach, intent and desired/planned outcomes for the child over the
following twelve months.
■■ Guidance should be issued to support parents in this task with an opportunity to meet
local authority officers to discuss the planned approach to home education and develop
the plan before it is finalised. The plan should be finalised within eight weeks of first
registration.
■■ As well as written guidance, support should encompass advice from a range of advisers
and organisations, including schools. Schools should regard this support as a part of their
commitment to extended schooling.
■■ Where a child is removed from a school roll to be home educated, the school must provide
to the appropriate officer of the local authority a record of the child’s achievement to date
and expected achievement, within 20 school days of the registration, together with any
other school records.
■■ Local authorities must ensure that there are mechanisms/systems in place to record and
review registrations annually.

Recommendation 7
The DCSF should bring forward proposals to change the current regulatory and statutory basis to
ensure that in monitoring the efficiency and suitability of elective home education:
■■ That designated local authority officers should:
– have the right of access to the home;
– have the right to speak with each child alone if deemed appropriate or, if a child is
particularly vulnerable or has particular communication needs, in the company of a
trusted person who is not the home educator or the parent/carer.
In so doing, officers will be able to satisfy themselves that the child is safe and well.
■■ That a requirement is placed upon local authorities to secure the monitoring of the
effectiveness of elective home education as determined in Recommendation 1.
■■ That parents be required to allow the child through exhibition or other means to
demonstrate both attainment and progress in accord with the statement of intent lodged at
the time of registration.

Recommendation 23
That local authority adult services and other agencies be required to inform those charged with
the monitoring and support of home education of any properly evidenced concerns that they have
of parents’ or carers’ ability to provide a suitable education irrespective of whether or not they are
known to children’s social care, on such grounds as
■■ alcohol or drug abuse
■■ incidents of domestic violence
■■ previous offences against children
And in addition:
■■ anything else which may affect their ability to provide a suitable and efficient education
This requirement should be considered in the Government’s revision of Working Together to
Safeguard Children Guidance.
Recommendation 24
That the DCSF make such change as is necessary to the legislative framework to enable local
authorities to refuse registration on safeguarding grounds. In addition local authorities should have
the right to revoke registration should safeguarding concerns become apparent.