to establish whether children are having a suitable education. of course, we can only do that comprehensively if we know who is being educated at home, which is why, in our view, the establishment of a register is really, really important. white but you re talking about two separate things here. there is the register in the first instance, other than beyond that there is finding out what the attainment level is of children, especially in core subjects, literacy and numeracy? absolutely. the establishment of the register would mean that we knew children who moved into the area who are being home educated already, or parents who chose to opt out and not enter their child into the mainstream education system at the point they would be due to enter nursery. ii i would be due to enter nursery. if i can ick would be due to enter nursery. if i can pick up on that, there is not an onus on parents to inform the local authority if they are home educating. it is up to schools to say if a child ha