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<p>Responsibility for providing a suitable full-time education for children of compulsory
school age who are educated at home rests with the parents. Although local authorities
do not have a power to monitor such provision on a routine basis, they are under a
duty to identify children who are not receiving a suitable full-time education, and
as part of that process will take appropriate steps to ensure that if a child is not
being properly educated at home, a school attendance order is served. Published departmental
guidance to local authorities on this matter is attached.</p><p>Children who are educated
at home are not allocated a unique pupil number (UPN), although if the child had been
in attendance at a state-funded school at some point before being withdrawn for home
education, he or she would have been allocated a UPN at that point.</p><p> </p>
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