Some families freely choose home schooling while others feel they have no alternative because the alternatives to school education for a troubled child are limited. While the number of the latter has dropped, the number of the former has increased from over 1,000 five years ago to over 1,500 last year. What does that say about the confidence in our school education system that they choose to home school? For those families that enrol but then withdraw their child, how sure are you that budget cuts, as has happened in Swansea, haven’t reduced the child’s entitlement to an appropriate level of education?