The Department has set out a new legal requirement for local authorities to maintain registers of children not in school. The Department must issue clear guidance to local authorities on the definition of a child missing education, to ensure that all looked- after children not in the roll of a DfE registered school are recorded. (Paragraph 95) Educational poverty: how children in residential care have been let down and what to do about it 49

The Department has set out a new legal requirement for local authorities to maintain registers of children not in school. The Department must issue clear guidance to local authorities on the definition of a child missing education, to ensure that all looked- after children not in the roll of a DfE registered school are recorded. (Paragraph 95) Educational poverty: how children in residential care have been let down and what to do about it 49 Type: conclusion | Number: 38 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: Accept in principle. The department recognises the need to hold local authorities to account in terms of looked-after children not in school and failing to receive the education they deserve. This will be considered as part of our wider work to develop an implementation strategy to the care review.