"Lost generation" of home-educated children facing uncertain future

Exclusive: Home-educated children have an increased chance of being unemployed or dropping out of education entirely, new research reveals.

Thousands of children who are being educated at home because schools cannot support them are at high risk of falling out of the system and becoming unemployed or out of training at the age of 16 — with dire consequences for their life chances — The Lead can reveal.

Academics studying a cohort of children who have left school and are being home-educated …