Local Authority Home Education Portfolios

How does your Local Authority compare?

Educational Freedom is proud to publish the UK's first comprehensive Local Authority Home Education Portfolios, giving families an insight into how every Local Authority approaches home education.

Each portfolio brings together information obtained through Freedom of Information requests, publicly available information and ongoing research. Depending on the information available, portfolios may include:

Numbers of known home educated children and how many have SEND
Home visit data
Initial letters and emails sent to families
Accuracy of Local Authority websites
Section 437(1) notices and School Attendance Orders
EHE staff roles and job adverts
Policy review dates
Staff training and materials.
Whether the authority shared the Government's Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act letter with home educating families

The portfolios are designed to improve transparency, help families understand local practice, and encourage higher standards across Local Authorities.

Please remember that these are live documents and are updated regularly. They provide an overview of each authority but cannot reflect every family's individual experience. Practice can vary between officers and may change over time.

Alongside the portfolios you can also view the raw FOI data used to create them, together with a summary of the 2026 findings and emerging national trends.

Over the coming months we will also be adding a Home Educators' Feedback section to each portfolio. If you would like your experiences to help build a more complete picture of your Local Authority, please complete our survey.

If you would like to understand more about how this data is gathered and scored, and the importance of any part please read this.

We would also like to thank Ginger Stark for their contribution to this project. They conducted an FOI-based audit of Local Authorities in England to verify the dissemination and sharing of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 letter to home educators. Their work identified administrative failures, information governance concerns and instances where Local Authorities had not complied with the requested dissemination process.

Select your Local Authority below to view its portfolio.

Barking and Dagenham LA Portfolio
Barnet LA Portfolio
Barnsley LA Portfolio
Bath & North East Somerset LA Portfolio
Bedford LA Portfolio
Bexley LA Portfolio
Birmingham LA Portfolio
Blackburn and Darwen LA Portfolio
Blackpool LA Portfolio
Bolton LA Portfolio
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole LA Portfolio
Bracknell Forrest LA Portfolio
Bradford LA Portfolio
Brent LA Portfolio
Brighton and Hove LA Portfolio
Bristol LA Portfolio
Bromley LA Portfolio
Buckinghamshire LA Portfolio
Bury LA Portfolio
Calderdale LA Portfolio
Cambridgeshire LA Portfolio
Camden LA Portfolio
Central Bedfordshire LA Portfolio
Cheshire East LA Portfolio
Cheshire West and Chester LA Portfolio
City of London LA Portfolio
Cornwall LA Portfolio
Coventry LA Portfolio
Croydon LA Portfolio
Cumberland LA Portfolio
Darlington LA Portfolio
Derby LA Portfolio
Derbyshire LA Portfolio
Devon LA Portfolio
Doncaster LA Portfolio
Dorset LA Portfolio
Dudley LA Portfolio
Durham LA Portfolio
Ealing LA Portfolio
East Riding of Yorkshire LA Portfolio
East Sussex LA Portfolio
EHE 2026
Enfield LA Portfolio
Essex LA Portfolio
Gateshead LA Portfolio
Gloucestershire LA Portfolio
Greenwich LA Portfolio
Hackney LA Portfolio
Halton LA Portfolio
Hammersmith and Fulham LA Portfolio
Hampshire LA Portfolio
Haringey LA Portfolio
Harrow LA Portfolio
Hartlepool LA Portfolio
Havering LA Portfolio
Herefordshire LA Portfolio
Hertfordshire LA Portfolio
Hillingdon LA Portfolio
Hounslow LA Portfolio
Hull LA Portfolio
Isle of Wight LA Portfolio
Isles of Scilly LA Portfolio
Islington LA Portfolio
Kensington and Chelsea LA Portfolio
Kent LA Portfolio
Kingston upon Thames LA Portfolio
Kirklees LA Portfolio
Knowsley LA portfolio
Lambeth LA Portfolio
Lancashire LA Portfolio
Leeds LA Portfolio
Leicester LA Portfolio
Leicestershire LA Portfolio
Lewisham LA Portfolio
Lincolnshire LA Portfolio
Liverpool LA Portfolio
Luton LA Portfolio
Manchester LA Portfolio
Medway LA Portfolio
Merton LA Portfolio
Middlesbrough LA Portfolio
Milton Keynes LA Portfolio
Newcastle LA Portfolio
Newham LA Portfolio
Norfolk LA Portfolio
North East Lincolnshire LA Portfolio
North Lincolnshire LA Portfolio
North Northamptonshire LA Portfolio
North Somerset LA Portfolio
North Tyneside LA Portfolio
North Yorkshire LA Portfolio
Northumberland LA Portfolio
Nottingham City LA Portfolio
Nottinghamshire City LA Portfolio
Oldham LA Portfolio
Oxfordshire LA Portfolio
Peterborough LA Portfolio
Plymouth LA Portfolio
Portsmouth LA Portfolio
Reading LA Portfolio
Redbridge LA Portfolio
Redcar and Cleveland LA Portfolio
Richmond LA Portfolio
Rochdale LA Portfolio
Rotherham LA Portfolio
Rutland LA Portfolio
Salford LA Portfolio
Sandwell LA Portfolio
Sefton LA Portfolio
Sheffield LA Portfolio
Shropshire LA Portfolio
Slough LA Portfolio
Solihull LA Portfolio
Somerset LA Portfolio
South Gloucestershire LA Portfolio
South Tyneside LA Portfolio
Southampton LA Portfolio
Southend on sea LA Portfolio
Southwark LA Portfolio
St Helens LA Portfolio
Staffordshire LA Portfolio
Stockport LA Portfolio
Stockton on Tees LA Portfolio
Stoke on Trent LA Portfolio
Suffolk LA portfolio
Sunderland LA Portfolio
Surrey LA Portfolio
Sutton LA Portfolio
Swindon LA Portfolio
Tameside LA Portfolio
Telford and Wrekin LA Portfolio
Thurrock LA Portfolio
Torbay LA Portfolio
Tower Hamlets LA Portfolio
Trafford LA Portfolio
Wakefield LA Portfolio
Walsall LA Portfolio
Waltham Forest LA Portfolio
Wandsworth LA Portfolio
Warrington LA Portfolio
Warwickshire LA Portfolio
West Berkshire LA Portfolio
West Northamptonshire LA Portfolio
West Sussex LA Portfolio
Westminster LA Portfolio
Westmoreland and Furness LA Portfolio
Wigan LA Portfolio
Wiltshire LA Portfolio
Windsor and Maidenhead LA Portfolio
Wirral LA Portfolio
Wokingham LA Portfolio
Wolverhampton LA Portfolio
Worcestershire LA Portfolio
York LA Portfolio