I'd also like to pose some questions

"To home-educate children in the UK, one does not need a teaching qualification nor any specialist equipment"

What is considered the acceptable 'standard' for any individual to educate a child/young person up to the age of 16 in a range of subjects ?
Is this a task instinctive 'motherhood' and 'love' equips everyone for?
How are such 'qualifications' to be measured?

Does home schooling allow a 'monitor' system where older children are teaching their younger siblings?

In state schools corporal punishment was outlawed in 1986 and 1998 for the few remaining independent schools that retained the practice.
In England and Wales legislation prohibiting corporal punishment does not apply to the home - and logically therefore home educators are still free to exercise this form of discipline with no monitoring?

Any answers?