Your children or everyone’s children?
A look at recently appointed Education Secretary’s words to her DfE staff team What’s been said? A new broom sweeps clean. The Labour Government has lost no time in making its mark …
Party Manifestos and the Family
An examination of different parties’ policy statements around ‘supporting families,’ and how such proposals would play out in the early years relationships between parents and their children What’s been said? In our …
Party Manifestos and Home Education
An overview of different parties commitments re home education and other policies which undermine the role of parents in the lives of their children What’s been said? There has been a frantic …
Union Leader Challenged for Suggesting that HE Children are Prone to Involvement in Gang Culture and Drugs
When the ex General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, appeared on Radio Suffolk, he discovered that the programme’s host, Wayne Bavin, wasn’t going to let him justify HE …
York MP holds DfE’s Feet to the Fire with Barrage of Written Questions
Multiple Written Questions submitted in quick succession by Rachael Maskell in ten days, some featuring home education! What’s been said? Rachael Maskell (Labour/Co-operative, York Central) is a prolific user of Written Questions …
What Next for Flick Drummond’s Bill?
On Friday 15 March, her Children Not in School (Registers, Support and Orders) Bill received a Second reading without debate. What does this mean? What will happen next – and when? What’s …