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IDPs & Home Education
Understanding what happens to an IDP when you home educate.
A practical, parent-facing guide to understanding what actually changes, what does not, and which questions are worth asking before decisions are made.
13 min readWalesLast Checked August 2026
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What this guide is about
If your child has an Individual Development Plan, often shortened to an IDP, choosing home education can feel like stepping into unfamiliar territory. Families are often given very mixed messages. Some are told support automatically disappears.…
The rest of this guide
With an account you get every remaining section, in full — the same headings you see here, written through to the end.
- 02Part One · An IDP does not define your child — and it does not simply disappear
- 03Part Two · Leaving school and moving into home education
- 04Part Three · What changes when you home educate
- 05Part Four · Provision, support and practical decisions
- 06Part Five · Reviews, changes and keeping the plan useful
- 07Part Six · Where to get specialist advice
- 08Final Thought · the plan should support the child — not replace them
- 09Where to go from here.
