R-01 · Records
Record Keeping
Preparing Your Written Response.
What UK home-education law actually requires, what counts as suitable evidence, and how to build a written response as you go — without turning your home into an admin office.
13 min read
United Kingdom
Updated August 2026
Records
Less than most parents think.
The anxiety around compliance in home education is almost always disproportionate to what the law actually requires. Most families who dread the local authority letter are worrying about something they are already doing.
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.
- 02The Wellbeing Act & Devolved Guidelines (2026).
- 03What a local authority, council, or the EA can and cannot do.
- 04What counts: Ways to record and describe learning.
- 05How to capture the year as you go.
- 06Ways to record learning.
- 07Real-World Examples.
- 08When the authority contacts you: what to do when the letter arrives.
- 09Where to go from here.
