Councils would be forced to keep a register of all home-schooled kids under a proposed law to stop tens of thousands of "ghost children" falling through the cracks.
Tory MP Flick Drummond is pushing for a legal duty on local authorities to keep a record of all youngsters who are not in school amid fears kids are unsafe or losing out on their education.
The Government shelved its much-criticised Schools Bill last year - which included provision to modernise how attendance is recorded.
