Elective Home Education (EHE)

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Elective Home Education (EHE) is a Department for Education (DfE) term which describes a parent or carer’s decision to provide education for their child/ren at home, rather than through attendance at school. Elective Home Education is a discrete area of education, distinct from both tuition provided by the Local Authority when a child is unable to attend school for medical reasons, and education provided at home during the pandemic – sometimes referred to as ‘home schooling.’

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​The Local Authority and BELS do not finance home educators and/or home education. This means that there is no help for costs with exams, subscriptions, outings, clubs, books and tutors from the local authority and BELS. Parents and carers take on this financial responsibility when they elect to home educate. A child’s previous school will not provide work, resources, tuition and examinations for a home educated child.

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This is also the case if your child has an EHCP. Therefore, provision previously written into the EHCP will not be provided in the same way as when your child attended school, particularly in the case of the therapy services - which will only take place in Clinic not at your home. If your child has an EHCP and you are considering EHE, please ensure that you contact your child's school SENCO to discuss the impact of electing to home educate on your child's EHCP provision.