"I would also point out that nNON home educated children also get murdered, killed, poisoned, treated horrifically and a whole lot more."

Actually, a report on BBC radio only this week (following the murder of another child who had been taken out of the school system to be "home educated") said that there are twice as many children on the government's At Risk register who are being home educated than there are in the general population. This is clearly not a denigration of people who home educate their children for legitimate reasons, it is an acknowledgement that some very abusive parents/guardians take advantage of the relative lack of monitoring which exists in the home education sector to make their children "disappear".

I would have thought any registers and monitoring which would make this more difficult, or prevented it from happening altogether, would be welcomed. I'm happy for my child to be on a government register, if it means some poor abused kid is less likely to slip through the cracks.