Register

Register For Home Education

Please scan the QR code or click on the link at the foot of this page to register your child with the Elective Home Education (EHE) team at Barnet Education & Learning Service (BELS) if they are of compulsory school age and currently resident in the London Borough of Barnet. Registrations for Elective Home Education (EHE) can only be accepted from parents/ carers with parental responsibility (PR) for the child.

IMPORTANT, PLEASE NOTE: If your child is currently on the roll of a school, they will not be registered with the Elective Home Education (EHE) team at Barnet Education & Learning Service (BELS) until you have sent the school a dated deregistration email confirming that you are home educating your child and the date that this will start. Please also send a copy of your deregistration email to: EHE@barnet.gov.uk once you have sent it to the school.

Once the school have received your deregistration email, they will be able to take your child off the school roll and provide the EHE team at BELS with the documentation that we require to register your child for home education with us.

For examples of deregistration emails, you may wish to visit the charity Education Otherwise: www.educationotherwise.org/resources/template-letters/

If your child is currently in a mainstream school

If your child has a School Attendance Order (SAO) or Education Supervision Order (ESO)

Where a child has a School Attendance Order (SAO) or Education Supervision Order (ESO), they cannot subsequently be deregistered from school without the order being revoked. The School Attendance Pupil Registration Regulations 2024 refer: www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/208/made The Elective Home Education team will not register the child without evidence that the order has been revoked. Please do not register your child for Elective Home Education with the BELS EHE team below until you able to provide evidence that the School Attendance Order (SAO) or Education Supervision Order (ESO) has been revoked. Once you have this evidence, please send a copy to: EHE@barnet.gov.uk

If your child is currently attending an Independent school

Please register below once you have informed your child’s school in writing (deregistration email) that your child will be home educated and the date that this will start. This will enable the school to off roll your child and for us to complete your child’s registration. Please also send a copy of your deregistration email to: EHE@barnet.gov.uk Please note that you will be responsible for providing any required withdrawal notice to the school and/or paying any fees in lieu of notice and/or outstanding, as stipulated in the school’s contract signed upon enrolment.

If your child has an EHCP and is currently attending a Special school

You will need to discuss your home education request with your SEN co-ordinator at Barnet Education and Learning Service (BELS) to obtain consent to deregister. Your child will need to continue to attend a special school until consent is obtained. Please do not register your child for Elective Home Education with the BELS EHE team below until you have received consent to deregister from your SEN co-ordinator at BELS. Once you have received consent, please send a copy of the notification to: EHE@barnet.gov.uk and register with us.

If your child has an EHCP and is currently in a mainstream school

You do not need to obtain consent from the local authority to home educate. Please register below once you have informed your child’s school in writing (deregistration email) that your child will be home educated and the date that this will start. This will enable the school to off roll your child and for us to complete your child’s registration. Please also send a copy of your deregistration email to: EHE@barnet.gov.uk

If you are moving into the London Borough of Barnet from within the UK and your child has been attending a school

Please register below. If your child has been attending a school outside of the London Borough of Barnet, but in the UK, you should inform the school in writing (deregistration email) that you will be home educating your child in the London Borough of Barnet, the date that this will start and your new address in the London Borough of Barnet. This will enable the school to off roll your child and inform your previous local authority who will then contact us.

If your child does not have a previous school

Please register below.

If you have been home educating but have not yet registered with us

Please register below.

If you are moving into the London Borough of Barnet from within the UK and your child has been home educated

Please register below. Please contact your local authority to confirm the new address in the London Borough of Barnet (where you will be living), your move date and that you will continue to home educate your child. This will enable the local authority to remove your child’s name from their register and transfer your child to us.

If you have already moved into the London Borough of Barnet from overseas

Please register below.

Organisational and financial responsibilities of home educating parents and carers.

Home educating parents and carers assume full responsibility for their child’s education, including organisational and financial responsibility. This includes home educating parents and carers of children with an EHCP and/or SEND. No tuition, teaching, resources or laptops are available from the local authority, Barnet Education & Learning Services or the previous school. It is also the parents/ carers responsibility to organise and pay for all examinations for their home educated child.

Where a child has an EHCP and is home educated, the local authority is not under a duty to make the special educational provision set out in the EHCP, provided it is satisfied that the arrangements made by the parents/ carers are suitable. This is in line with paragraph 10.32 of the SEND Code of Practice. The duty under section F is discharged from the Local Authority. If there is health care provision in Section G of a child/ young person’s EHCP, the health body must still arrange this.

QR code and link to register for Elective Home Education with Barnet Education & Learning Service (BELS): Register my child for Elective Home Education.