Almost 300 children with special needs in Worcestershire are being home schooled.

The bill will be introduced on the day Sara Sharif's father and step-mother are sentenced for her murder.

It follows calls to change the law so children like Sara Sharif, suspected to be victims of abuse, cannot be home-schooled.

Exam pressures are one of the main reasons for the rise in home-schooling, Rotherham Council says.

Wiltshire sees the number of children being home educated more than double since the pandemic began.

The children's commissioner says she is "deeply concerned" by a doubling in home education figures.

A woman says she does not believe she would have succeeded without her home education.

One parent said her child was "unrecognisable" as school made her so "depressed".