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The UK is an international outlier; a 2018 survey of European countries found a dozen allow home schooling only in exceptional circumstances with parents usually needing sign-off from education authorities; and that every country except Britain and the Netherlands monitored and assessed pupil progress. Labour's pledge to create a compulsory home school register, an idea that has been in the ether for a couple of decades, and a unique digital identifier for every child is welcome, and reflects calls from the children's commissioner. But it isn't enough: the government needs to set clearer shared standards for what children have the right to access educationally, and give local authorities greater powers to assess whether they are receiving an adequate education, and to intervene if not.