Your starting steps

Homeschooling in Tasmania

Home education is legal in Tasmania. You register with the Office of the Education Registrar (OER); the Tasmanian Home Education Advisory Council provides advisory input.

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Your authority: Office of the Education Registrar (OER) ↗

You're not alone

Tasmania has the highest per-capita rate of home education of any Australian jurisdiction (over 1% of students).

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The standard

What's expected of your program

There is no requirement to follow the Australian Curriculum or any particular curriculum. Instead your Home Education Program must address the 10 standards for approved programs set out in Regulation 5 of the Education Regulations 2017 (covering areas such as literacy, numeracy and pedagogy).

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Registration

Your checklist to register

A completed application form.
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A written Home Education Program (HEP) for new registrations — a separate document for each child — outlining what the child has learnt and the plan for the year ahead. (Renewals use a Home Education Summary and Program, HESP.)
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Dates

The timeline that matters

Registration is granted for a maximum of 12 months; a new HESP must be lodged annually — no earlier than 15 weeks and no later than 12 weeks before your current registration expires.

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After you're registered

Keeping it going

Submit a new Home Education Summary and Program (HESP) each year to renew.

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One last thing

Confirm every detail on the official Tasmania page

This is a plain-English roadmap. Your state authority is the source of truth — open it, and you'll recognise every step above.

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