To ensure that learners are achieving the required results, the parent needs to:

• Keep certain records
• Appoint an independent assessor

After the learner has been registered for home education, the parent must:

• Keep a record of attendance.
• Keep a portfolio of the learner's work.
• Maintain up-to-date records of the learner's progress.
• Keep a portfolio of the educational support given to the learner.
• Keep evidence of the continuous assessment of the learner's work.
• Keep evidence of the assessment and/or examinations at the end of each year.
• Keep evidence at the end of Grades 3, 6 and 9 showing whether or not the outcomes for these grades have been achieved.

These records must be made available for inspection by the WCED. All relevant assessment results must be kept for three years.

At the end of every phase, the parents must appoint, at their own expense, an independent, suitably qualified person, who is approved by the Head of Education, to assess the learner's progress at the end of that phase.