may increase known safeguarding risks within the family or in the community. Further information and support, includes: • The department’s statutory guidance on school attendance Working together to improve school attendance which sets out how schools must work with local authority children’s services where school absence indicates safeguarding concerns. • Information regarding schools’ duties regarding children missing education, including information schools must provide to the local authority when removing a child from the school roll at standard and non-standard transition points, can be found in the department’s statutory guidance: Children Missing Education. • further information for colleges providing education for a child of compulsory school age can be found in: Full-time-Enrolment of 14 to 16 year olds in Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges. • general information and advice for schools and colleges can be found in the Government’s Missing Children and Adults Strategy. Elective home education (EHE) 178. Many home educated children have a positive learning experience. We would expect the parents’ decision to home educate to be made with their child’s best education at the heart of the decision. However, this is not the case for all. Elective home education can mean that some children are not in receipt of suitable education and are less visible to the services that are there to keep them safe and supported in line with their needs. 50 179. In accordance with the School Attendance (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2024, a school must make a return to the local authority when a pupil’s name is deleted from the admission register.46 180. Where a parent/carer has expressed their intention to remove a child from school with a view to educating at home,