Parents who choose to home educate but fail to register their child with the local authority in England are likely to face sanctions, under government plans for a compulsory national register of children who are not in school.

Antallet er tredoblet på fem skoleår. Skoleforsker mener, det er problematisk at tage børnene ud af skolen.

Precise numbers are hard to come by, but several factors — including school closures and parents working from home — appear to have led to an increase in households that are homeschooling.

Theo, 8, har fått hemundervisning sedan vårterminens början. Föräldrarna vågar inte ha honom i skolan. "Det går inte att hålla avstånd i klassrummet. Jag har en plikt att skydda mitt barn", säger Lottie Bohman, mamma och själv fritidspedagog.

There has been a huge rise in the number of children removed from school to be home educated, with many parents saying they were driven by Covid fears.

Just nu tvingas många sköta skolarbetet från hemmet på grund av coronaviruset - en minst sagt ovanlig situation. Men det finns familjer som redan innan coronautbrottet valde bort skolan för att undervisa barnen i hemmet. Hör reportage av Lubna El-Shanti, om varför dessa familjer flyttar till Åland.