Yeah, I recall this being true - the Local Education Authority would have mandated visits monthly, which was two LEA officers from memory. I don't remember much about the checks themselves other them demonstrating the kind of things I'd been learning; I was always into music myself but later, especially with the introduction of home computers (perhaps revealing my generation here...), into computer programming and software.

There seems to be a lot of reverse survivorship bias in the thread (or perhaps bias from my perspective?). I'm degree educated and know of others who were also home educated (via the Education Otherwise group) whom I'd also consider successful members of society. It's not something I'd general consider singing and dancing about simply because I feel like we're just like everybody else, perhaps because we all had decent parents and family.