Children Not In School Forum (CNIS) - request from DfE
What is this for?
We are the team at the Department for Education who are responsible for working on Elective Home Education policy for England. The Children’s Wellbeing Bill will include legislation regarding the introduction of local authority Children Not In School registers, including home educated children. The Bill will also create a new duty for all local authorities to provide support to home educating families who request it. We want to hear from home educating families, as part of our policy development processes, to ensure that we take into account all views.
We are setting up a Children Not In School Implementation Forum and looking for home educating parents to take part in a productive discussion about our implementation considerations. Meetings will be run by policy officials.
Timings and attendance
We hope to arrange 3 to 4 meetings, lasting 1 hour - 1.5 hours each. All meetings will be held virtually. The first meeting will be held in early December (tbc) and future meetings will be spread across the remaining 2 years (approximately) of the implementation process.
Why are we collecting data?
The form below asks for some personal information from you. This is to help us ensure that the broadest range of home educating families is represented on the implementation forum, including families with varying lengths of experience of home education, reasons for home education, children of different age groups, and geographical locations etc. The questions asked in this form are to inform us about the balance of home educating experience across the group selected.
If you are interested in participating but are not selected for the implementation forum, we may be able to offer other opportunities for you to share your views.
If you are a home educating parent or guardian and wish to participate, please register your interest.
Applications must be received by Wednesday 27 November.
Please submit your completed form via email to: elective.homeeducation@education.gov.uk
Please include “CNIS Implementation Forum application” in the subject line of your email to help us ensure that email applications are correctly identified.
