Table 2.

Reasons for school de-registration.

Reasons	EHE pre-pandemic N = 68	EHE pandemic N = 63
I did not feel my child was safe from COVID-19 at school	N/A	15 (23.8%)
I did not feel the school provided a good education to my child	30 (44.1%)	30 (47.6%)
My child was unhappy at the school	50 (73.5%)	38 (60.3%)
My child did not want to go to that school	32 (47.1%)	29 (46%)
My child’s mental health had deteriorated	52 (76.5%)	35 (55.5%)
I felt that could provide a better education for my child at home	36 (52.9%)	44 (69.8%)
My child’s additional needs were not met sufficiently in the school	53 (77.9%)	45 (71.4%)
The school had off rolled my child*	4 (5.8%)	4 (6.3%)
The school told me that my child was at risk of exclusion	4 (5.8%)	5 (7.9%)
The school had permanently excluded my child	N/A	N/A
I felt pressured from the school to remove my child	6 (8.8%)	6 (9.5%)
Other, please describe	21 (30.9%)	26 (41.3%)

EHE = Elective Home Education; * the school had off rolled my child: informal school exclusion.