The Department for Education (DfE) has been consulting on the issue across England and said it would “respond in due course”

The report to the DfE by Cornwall Council said the “majority of parents and carers engage with the local authority readily” when they removed their child from school.

But it said voluntary registration of home schooling “allows some children to become missing in education”.

The council is calling for a compulsory register of those who are homeschooled.

And it is urging ministers to provide enough money so it can monitor and support home education properly.

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