Home Education
Children, Schools and Families
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
David Lidington (- Shadow Minister, Foreign Affairs; Aylesbury, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate he has made of the cost under each budgetary heading of implementing each of the recommendations of the Badman Review of elective home education in England.
Diana Johnson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Children, Schools and Families; Kingston upon Hull North, Labour)
We estimate, subject to discussion with the Local Government Association, that the overall additional costs for implementing the registration and monitoring elements of the Badman Review recommendations will be £21.65 million in the first year with additional ongoing annual costs of £9.78 million.
We estimate that an additional support package for home educated children will cost a further £21 million in the first year rising to £22 million in subsequent years. This is based on an estimated cohort of 25,000 home educated children who all seek additional support. We know that this estimate may be too low and we will adjust our funding commitments as Local Authorities get more clarity over the numbers of home educated children and the services they may seek.
The 28 recommendations are wide ranging but the financial costs fall into the following broad categories:
| Estimated cost | ||
| £ | ||
| First Year | Ongoing | |
| Registration and deregistering from schools | 14,000,000 | 2,500,000 |
| Monitoring | 7,000,000 | 7,000,000 |
| Training | 350,000 | 280,000 |
| Evaluation | 300,000 | 0 |
| Support package | 21,000,000 | 22,000,000 |
| Total | 42,650.000 | 31,780,000 |