Built for the new register
When the new Children Not in School register comes into force, every English Local Authority will ask the same set of questions. Flybrite is built so you can answer them in seconds — with evidence, not improvisation.
Last reviewed against UK home-education legislation: 26 April 2026.
The short version
The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25 introduces a compulsory Children Not in School register in every English LA. Parents who home-educate will be required to give the LA a small, prescribed packet of information, and refresh it within 15 days of any change.
Royal Assent is expected in 2026, with the home-education provisions coming into force in late 2026. Until then nothing changes legally — but it is good sense to have the data ready, especially since the existing 2019 DfE guidance already lets a council make an "informal enquiry" today.
Flybrite collects this data once per child and re-uses it for the register, the suitability narrative, and the LA report. You don't keep retyping your address.
The mapping
Parental duty
Education Act 1996, s.7 — current law
Flybrite feature
Daily moments + AI subject-coverage tile show how your week breaks down by subject. The LA report gathers it into the 14 DfE-aligned sections automatically.
Live in appParental duty
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25, Part 4
Flybrite feature
Each child profile captures the prescribed packet (name, date of birth, address, parent details, Local Authority, and means-of-education with proportions). One tap in the LA report screen prints the register submission.
Live in appParental duty
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25, Part 4
Flybrite feature
"Last confirmed" timestamp on each child + an "overdue" flag on the LA report screen. Re-affirming is one tap; the timestamp updates server-side.
Live in appParental duty
DfE Elective Home Education guidance, April 2019
Flybrite feature
Every photographed moment is read by AI vision, mapped to UK subject categories and stitched into a journal-style narrative the LA can read in seconds. Coverage minutes per subject are charted automatically.
Live in appParental duty
DfE EHE guidance, April 2019; Children and Families Act 2014
Flybrite feature
Per-child SEN profile, with a toggle that adapts AI lesson plans for the child's specific needs. SEN context is woven into the LA report without you re-typing it.
Live in appParental duty
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25
Flybrite feature
Per-child flags. While set, Flybrite refuses to print the register submission and prompts the parent to speak to their LA before continuing.
Live in appParental duty
Education Act 1996, s.437; gov.uk/home-education
Flybrite feature
Same SAO flag — surfaces a banner on the report screen and blocks register export until the parent confirms LA permission has been obtained.
Live in appParental duty
DfE EHE guidance — informal enquiry process
Flybrite feature
Activities and moments older than 6 months are silently re-analysed in the background so the LA report covers your whole year, not just the last few weeks.
Live in appParental duty
Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill 2024-25
Flybrite feature
Provider mix per child (home, tutor, co-op, online, school) with proportions. Visible to you, exportable to the LA, never sold or shared.
Live in appFAQ
The Bill's wording sets out a register for educational oversight, not safeguarding surveillance. Local Authorities can already make informal enquiries today; the register only formalises which families they have on file. The Bill explicitly ties any home-visit power to the existing safeguarding framework.
Under current law you can satisfy the LA by writing instead of admitting them. Under the new Bill the LA gains a power to request a visit; refusal can trigger a School Attendance Order. Flybrite's LA report is designed to be accepted as the written-evidence option in either regime.
No — Flybrite is an independent product, not endorsed by any government or authority. We track legislation closely and re-review the app each time the Bill moves, but we are not legal advisers. For specific cases (especially SEN and School Attendance Orders), please contact Education Otherwise or IPSEA.