Schedule 1 of the Children, Schools and Families Bill is proposing to amend the current education act in order to give Local Authorities new powers over home education.

**The Children, Schools and Families Bill will have its
second reading in parliament on 11th January**

Schedule 1 - which is enabled by Clause 26 - will alter certain sections of the current legislation, in several places in the current legislation. The resulting puzzle of references to different sections and amendments can be difficult to put together as a coherent and readable whole.

These pages have been created to show how those changes will look once the Education Act is amended and to try and decipher what this will mean in reality.

If you would like to read Schedule 1, please click on the link called Schedule 1 - Clause 26

If you would like to see what the amended law will look like if Clause 26 is passed in parliament, please click on the link Proposed law - detailing the changes. In that section you can either view a cross-referenced version of the amended education act, or just the amended education act.

Please click on Full analysis : Schedule 1 for a detailed analysis of schedule 1 by Betsy Anderson in plain English.

For interpretations and "translations" of the legalese and also information about what we can do to argue against and try and stop this law from being accepted in parliament, please click on Useful links.

Some of the reasons why we are concerned about Clause 26:

Clause 26 is trying to add into the law requirements that all home educators:

apply for a licence to home educate annually under threat of being issued school attendance orders;

are monitored and inspected simply because their children are not in school;

are expected to let complete strangers enter their homes, or other venues where they and their children spend time learning, in order to interview their children about their welfare and education under threat of not being allowed to home educate.