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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Aine Fox

Education Secretary says proposed new law ‘seminal moment for child protection’

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is being introduced to Parliament on Tuesday (Alamy/PA) -

The right to home education will no longer be automatic for parents of the most at-risk children, under proposed legislation being unveiled in Parliament.

The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is being introduced in the Commons on Tuesday – on the same day 10-year-old Sara Sharif’s killers are sentenced, in a case which raised questions over safeguards around home-schooling.

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