Children, Schools and Families Bill/Amendments to Section 19C of Schedule 1

Current wording of Section 19C
19C    Entry of child’s details on home education register: supplementary provision


 * (1)  Regulations may make provision about steps to be taken by an authority in connection with an application for a child’s details to be entered on their home education register.


 * (2)  The regulations may, in particular, make provision about matters that are or are not to be taken into account by an authority in deciding—


 * (a)  whether to register a child’s details under section 19B(3);


 * (b)  whether a child is within section 19B(7);


 * (c)  whether section 19B(8) applies to a child’s application.


 * (3)  Regulations under section 19B(1)(a) may, in particular, make provision within subsection (4) or (5).


 * (4)  Provision within this subsection is provision—


 * (a)  about how an application for registration of a child’s details is to be made;


 * (b)  requiring an application for registration of a child’s details to include a statement giving prescribed information about the child’s prospective education;


 * (c)  requiring an application to include other prescribed information;


 * (d)  about the form in which a statement mentioned in paragraph (b), or any other information required to be included in an application, is to be provided;


 * (e)  for an application for registration to include an undertaking to provide a statement mentioned in paragraph (b), or other prescribed information, to the authority within a period determined by or in accordance with the regulations.


 * (5)  Provision within this subsection is provision permitting an authority to specify a period, prescribed by or determined in accordance with the regulations, within which an application to enter on their home education register the details of a child to whom subsection (6) applies may not be made unless the authority are satisfied that there has been a change of circumstances that justifies an application being made within that period.


 * (6)  This subsection applies to a child if—


 * (a)  a parent of the child has previously made an application in the prescribed manner for the child’s details to be entered on a home education register maintained by a local authority, and the application (or the most recent such application) did not succeed, or


 * (b)  the child’s details have previously been registered on a home education register maintained by a local authority, and the registration (or the most recent such registration) has been revoked under section 19F.

Proposed amendments to Section 19C
Amendment 1 

Section 19C(1) Replace "an application" with "a notification"

Amendment 2

Section 19C(2)(a) After 19B(3) add "or apply to the court to assess suitability of educational provision"

Amendment 3

Section 19C(2)(c) replace "application" with "notification"

Amendment 4

Section 19C(3) remove reference to subsection (5)

Amendment 5

Section 19C(4) Remove in its entirety and replace with "Notification shall take place by means of a parent returning a form that requires the child's name, date of birth, address, and the names of the parents responsible for that child"

Amendment 6

Section 19C(5) remove entirely, and renumber accordingly

Amendment 7

Section 19C(6)(a) Replace "an application" with "a notification" and "application" with "notification" (2 places)

How it would look as amended
19C    Entry of child’s details on home education register: supplementary provision


 * (1)  Regulations may make provision about steps to be taken by an authority in connection with a notification for a child’s details to be entered on their home education register.


 * (2)  The regulations may, in particular, make provision about matters that are or are not to be taken into account by an authority in deciding—


 * (a)  whether to register a child’s details under section 19B(3) or apply to the court to assess suitability of educational provision;


 * (b)  whether a child is within section 19B(7);


 * (c)  whether section 19B(8) applies to a child’s notification.


 * (3)  Regulations under section 19B(1)(a) may, in particular, make provision within subsection (4).


 * (4)  Notification shall take place by means of a parent returning a form that requires the child's name, date of birth, address, and the names of the parents responsible for that child


 * (5)  This subsection applies to a child if—


 * (a)  a parent of the child has previously made a notification in the prescribed manner for the child’s details to be entered on a home education register maintained by a local authority, and the notification (or the most recent such notification) did not succeed, or


 * (b)  the child’s details have previously been registered on a home education register maintained by a local authority, and the registration (or the most recent such registration) has been revoked under section 19F.