Isle of Man Bill Delayed Amid Legal Controversy
Officials choose to ignore legal opinion What’s been said? The Isle of Man Education Bill 2019, expected to be introduced in October, has been delayed. The whole concept of the Bill is …
Mother Ordered to Pay Court Costs for Seeking Permission to Home Educate
What’s been said. The local school law in Basle, Switzerland provides for tutoring at home on receipt of permission for HE, as long as the authority judges the teacher to be qualified …
What Most MPs Know about Home Education
What’s been said? The House of Commons Library published a Briefing Paper on Home Education in England on 23 April 2019. The Summary is available here and the full report may also …
Isle of Man – Guinea Pig for Registration & Monitoring of Home Education in Britain?
What’s been said? In the autumn of 2017 the Isle of Man [IoM] government consulted on major changes to EHE in a proposed new Education Bill. Following this, new EHE procedures were …
Holding the Liberal Democrats to Account
What’s been said? In a startlingly illiberal move, the Liberal Democrats passed a policy at their Spring 2018 Conference calling for the national curriculum to be imposed on all home educating families, …
Ofsted’s Eleanor Schooling on Home Education
What’s been said? Just before Christmas, Ofsted’s National Director, Social Care, Eleanor Schooling gave a speech which shared her views on provision for children who were being educated otherwise than at school. …