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• Bridget Phillipson wants to “know what’s happening” in your children’s lives 14 Nov 24
• Where do you Strike the Balance Between the Autonomy of the Individual and the Legitimate Role of Society? 20 Oct 24
• We Cannot Ignore the Rising Numbers of Home Educated Children 1 Oct 24
• Your children or everyone’s children? 20 Jul 24
• Party Manifestos and the Family 2 Jul 24
• Party Manifestos and Home Education 25 Jun 24
• Union Leader Challenged for Suggesting that HE Children are Prone to Involvement in Gang Culture and Drugs 27 Apr 24
• York MP holds DfE’s Feet to the Fire with Barrage of Written Questions 19 Apr 24
• What Next for Flick Drummond’s Bill? 5 Apr 24
• Why hasn’t the Welsh Government Listened to the General Medical Council? 2 Apr 24
• Debate Highlights the Need for Home Educators to Change the Narrative 6 Mar 24
• Health Workers in Wales to be Required to Share Children’s Data with Local Authorities 27 Feb 24
• Ex-minister says Ofsted should check on home-school parents 14 Feb 24
• Labour Plays Politics with Your Children! 1 Feb 24
• What Does Labour Have in Mind? 26 Jan 24
• Is the Draft EHE Guidance Fit for Purpose? 14 Jan 24
• Lobbying, Lobbying and more Lobbying 9 Jan 24
• What Exactly is a Voluntary Registration Scheme? 20 Dec 23
• Data Protection – a Case Study 10 Dec 23
• So Far As It Is Possible To Do So 4 Dec 23
• Continuing Pressure on Sunak for CNiS Registers 22 Nov 23
• Spielman must try harder to find the evidence she said she possessed 2 Nov 23
• Well Done, Dumfries & Galloway Home Educators! 18 Oct 23
• Unearthing Further Roots of the Political Agenda against Home Education, going back to 2006 8 Oct 23
• Historic Distortion of Home Education Facts Down Under 22 Sep 23
• The Truth Always Matters 6 Sep 23
• To school or not to school? 10 Aug 23
• Vocal Peers Press for Swift Action on Unregistered Schools and Home Education Registers 27 Jul 23
• Schools Minister quizzed about CNiS registers by Education Committee 15 Jul 23
• “Improving support for children missing education” 6 Jul 23
• When ‘Consent’ isn’t ‘Consent’ 12 Jun 23
• Welsh Guidance on Elective Home Education is Far Worse than Hoped For 28 May 23
• Dissecting the Myths and Presenting the Facts 27 Apr 23
• Worrying Agenda being Advanced by the AAA 16 Apr 23
• Educating Members of Parliament One by One 5 Apr 23
• The English Labour Party is Committed to CNiS Registers 30 Mar 23
• Protect Your Valuable Data 24 Mar 23
• Look Out! Here Comes Another Bill! 12 Mar 23
• Don’t Miss this Opportunity to Accentuate the Positives 27 Feb 23
• Conflicting Views on the ‘Voice of the Child’ 15 Feb 23
• Persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils 1 Feb 23
• Attendance, Attendance, Attendance 20 Dec 22
• Demise of the Schools Bill Finally Confirmed 11 Dec 22
• Odd Socks and Blind Spots 22 Nov 22
• Exactly the kind of education that everybody else is getting 1 Nov 22
• We Reckoned Without Our Host 3 Sep 22
• “Bringing them in the tent” 5 Aug 22
• Carpe Diem! 1 Aug 22
• What on Earth is Happening to the Schools Bill? 25 Jul 22
• Welsh Government Plans Local Authority Registers based on Data Sharing from April 29 Jun 22
• Children’s Commissioner’s Report on Attendance 24 Jun 22
• A Rush Job, Thrown into the Public Domain Before it was Ready? 16 Jun 22
• Understanding the Past Helps us to Address the Present 6 Jun 22
• Counting Children 26 May 22
• The Schools Bill has Landed! 18 May 22
• Important but Apparently Forgotten Historic Ministerial Letters 22 Apr 22
• Scotland Opts for Non-statutory Trusting Relationship with Home Educators 7 Apr 22
• Proposals for Local Authority Registers Create Wider Concerns 25 Feb 22
• The Long Awaited Response to the CNiS Consultation 10 Feb 22
• Children’s Commissioner Leads a Chorus of “And So Say All of Us” 29 Jan 22
• Sharing Bad Practice Across the Four Nations 23 Jan 22
• Charlotte Mason Remembered 13 Jan 22
• Plans for a Register Take a Step Nearer 21 Dec 21
• Trying to Come to Terms with the Portsmouth Judgment 1 Dec 21
• Department for Education Seeks to Oversee what You Teach Your Children! 7 Nov 21
• Keeping Children Safe in Education – Revised Guidance 27 Oct 21
• Families First in Education – Wales 8 Oct 21
• The Language of Statism 3 Sep 21
• Academic warns against ill-informed and prejudicial policy-making 19 Aug 21
• Education Committee’s Report is not What it Says on the Tin 12 Aug 21
• Orchestrated Lobbying Conflates Home Education with “Illegal Schools” 29 Jul 21
• Assessments, inspections and standardisation for home educated children is extremely likely 19 Jul 21
• Amanda Spielman on Monitoring and Civil Liberties 14 Jul 21
• The Confusion and Conflicts Caused by the Interpretation of Children’s Rights 12 May 21
• Asking is not the Same as Listening 2 May 21
• A Parliamentary Spat Over SATs 14 Apr 21
• Home Education Isn’t Always at Home 7 Apr 21
• Is the Labour Party Stirring on Home Education? 3 Mar 21
• Councillor Claims “The Problem at the Moment is Education is Compulsory but School isn’t” 24 Feb 21
• Isle of Man Education Bill Abandoned 16 Feb 21
• Portsmouth Home Educators Take Next Step Towards a Judicial Review 13 Feb 21
• Portsmouth Legal Action Reported by the Media 1 Feb 21
• “We have no Research Data about Home Educators” 30 Jan 21
• French Family Educators Stand United 23 Jan 21
• Ofqual and Department for Education Consultation on Summer 2021 Exams Published 18 Jan 21
• Exams Cancelled – Seize the Moment! 12 Jan 21
• Legal Advice being Sought by Portsmouth Home Educators 5 Jan 21
• Questioning Common Assumptions 21 Dec 20
• Unicef UK, the Rights of the Child and Graham Badman 18 Dec 20
• Government Letter to Local Authorities Causes Confusion 15 Dec 20
• Department for Education Announces a Registration Scheme in its Select Committee Submission 11 Dec 20
• Robert Halfon’s Letter: an Exercise in Orwellian Political Doublespeak 8 Dec 20
• Researchers Recognise the Benefits of Home Education 6 Dec 20
• What Makes a Director of Children’s Services Tick? 2 Dec 20
• Diverting the State Steamroller 28 Nov 20
• All Children Must Receive a Formal Education 24 Nov 20
• Real Home Educators Heard on the BBC! 17 Nov 20
• Scottish Home Education Forum keeps up the good work 9 Nov 20
• It’s Official – Home Schooling is not Elective Home Education! 2 Nov 20
• Home Education does not Require Separate Coronavirus Guidance 27 Oct 20
• A Further Opportunity to Register your Views with the Education Committee 23 Oct 20
• Anne Longfield informs MPs that a compulsory EHE register has been “Agreed” 20 Oct 20
• Education Committee Call for Evidence – Stand your Ground! 16 Oct 20
• Education Committee Call for Evidence – Grasp the Opportunity 14 Oct 20
• Education Committee Call for Evidence – Accentuate the Positives 12 Oct 20
• French Anti-Islamism Proposals Include Banning Home Education 10 Oct 20
• Education Committee Call for Evidence – Elective Home Education 4 Oct 20
• Children’s Commissioner Continues her One Woman Campaign against Home Education 1 Oct 20
• Civil Servant’s Personal “Bugbear” led to Totalitarian Bill 17 Sep 20
• 20,000 Private Exam Candidates without Grades, but still pushing for a HE Register – what an oxymoron! 14 Sep 20
• Is Education a “Public Good”? 10 Sep 20
• Home Educated Candidates Ignored but Not Quite Forgotten 27 Aug 20
• More Scottish Parents Choose to Home Educate as Schools Reopen 15 Aug 20
• English Consultation not Forgotten 6 Aug 20
• Some Positives and Negatives of Pandemic Schooling 17 Jul 20
• Isle of Man Education Bill Progressed at Short Notice 28 Jun 20
• Positive News for Home Educators in Wales 25 Jun 20
• Vigilance still Needed 5 Jun 20
• “I learned a lot from being home schooled” 20 May 20
• Real Education is Relational – especially in a Pandemic 8 May 20
• “Home Schooling is Dangerous!” 30 Apr 20
• Challenging Underlying Assumptions 23 Apr 20
• Challenge the Welsh Government’s Lack of Clarity 16 Apr 20
• Are You “Empowered” by and “Comfortable” with the Welsh Proposals? 9 Apr 20
• Less than Three Weeks Left to Tell the Welsh Government what you Think 3 Apr 20
• Update: Covid-19, GCSEs and Home Education 31 Mar 20
• Covid-19, GCSEs and Home Education 25 Mar 20
• Genuine Reporting or Covert Campaign? 20 Mar 20
• Home Truths on Home Education in Scotland and Elsewhere 16 Mar 20
• OSA Annual Report Speaks of Rising EHE Numbers 13 Mar 20
• When a Consultation is not a Consultation 11 Mar 20
• Devon Parents Conclude their Home Educating Years with No Regrets 9 Mar 20
• Standing Up to Anne Longfield’s Rhetoric 6 Mar 20
• Ensuring that Politicians Act within the Law 4 Mar 20
• Positive outcome for Lithuanian Homeschooling Association 2 Mar 20
• Regulating Independent Educational Institutions Consultation 28 Feb 20
• Well Done Everyone! 24 Feb 20
• “Child Cruelty Case Triggers Call for Home Schooling Review” 21 Feb 20
• Scottish “State Snoopers” Reappear in Different Guise 17 Feb 20
• Home Education – a “Problem” that won’t Go Away 14 Feb 20
• Welsh Petitions Committee Insists on an Evidence Session 11 Feb 20
• The Missing Question in the Education Database Consultation 8 Feb 20
• No Changes in Isle of Man Education Bill regarding EHE 5 Feb 20
• “The Safest Place for a Child to be is in School” 3 Feb 20
• Ofsted Annual Report 2018-19 31 Jan 20
• Essex Councillors Fear Home Educated Children are Joining Gangs 25 Jan 20
• Home Education Belongs in a Free Society 21 Jan 20
• Hungry for Your Children’s Data? 10 Jan 20
• Gateshead’s EHE Multi-Agency Group is an Alarming Signal 6 Jan 20
• Gateshead EHE Consultation Fails to Follow LGA Guidelines 3 Jan 20
• Obfuscating Officialdom called out by Scottish Petitioners 20 Dec 19
• Response to Welsh Consultation Delayed 16 Dec 19
• Darlington Safeguarding Children Board Considers HE a Problem 13 Dec 19
• Home Education – Not Quite Missing from Party Manifestos 9 Dec 19
• Dame Louise Casey: “I don’t like Home Schooling” 6 Dec 19
• Behind Closed Doors 2 Dec 19
• Home Education ‘Graduates’ and the World of Work 27 Nov 19
• Understanding the Hostile Environment in which we Live 22 Nov 19
• Isle of Man Bill Delayed Amid Legal Controversy 18 Nov 19
• One Unhappy Children’s Commissioner 13 Nov 19
• Direct Engagement in Wales 11 Nov 19
• The World Makes a Great Classroom! 5 Nov 19
• Meanwhile Back in Westminster – Albeit Briefly 1 Nov 19
• Parents Win Important Court Ruling 29 Oct 19
• Reversing the Pressure on Politicians 23 Oct 19
• Ofsted Continues to Lobby against HE Parents 21 Oct 19
• Named Person Scheme Pronounced Dead (But its Spectre Lives On) 14 Oct 19
• When Good Parents Do Nothing 9 Oct 19
• Mother Ordered to Pay Court Costs for Seeking Permission to Home Educate 7 Oct 19
• Protecting Your Children’s Privacy 4 Oct 19
• Safeguarding – Not just a Welsh Consultation Issue 1 Oct 19
• Welsh Consultation – The Rights of the Child 27 Sep 19
• Thinking About Responding to the Welsh Consultation? 25 Sep 19
• “Who needs schools anyway?” 23 Sep 19
• Constructive Engagement with Scottish Government 18 Sep 19
• Ombudsman Rules LA Dealt Unjustly with HE Parent 11 Sep 19
• LGA Presses for Monitoring of EHE Children 4 Sep 19
• Overcoming Hurdles to A-Level Success 28 Aug 19
• Sark Parents Offered Option of Home Educating Teenagers 21 Aug 19
• Numbers, Numbers, Numbers 14 Aug 19
• Northern Irish Consultation Closes 21 August 6 Aug 19
• Home Schooling More Than Doubles to ‘Size of a Small Secondary School’ 2 Aug 19
• Revised EHE Guidance Proposed for Scotland 26 Jul 19
• Two Home Education Consultations Planned for Wales 24 Jul 19
• Parents Coerced, Nudged and Persuaded into Home Education 22 Jul 19
• Scottish Home Educators “Face an Overtly Hostile Environment” 19 Jul 19
• Edward Timpson on Off-rolling and Home Education 15 Jul 19
• New EHE Guidelines – Advice from a QC 12 Jul 19
• Damien Hinds on Children Not in School 8 Jul 19
• An Interesting Political Initiative 3 Jul 19
• Human Rights Challenge to Proposed Isle of Man Bill 28 Jun 19
• “So How Do You Socialise Them?” 25 Jun 19
• Non-consensual Inter-agency Information-sharing in Scotland 21 Jun 19
• Minister Responds to Written Questions on Settings 17 Jun 19
• Longfield Calls for Home Education Assessments 14 Jun 19
• Hard Work Pays Off 10 Jun 19
• What Most MPs Know about Home Education 7 Jun 19
• “All These Things Conflate” 3 Jun 19
• Wondering How to Respond to the Consultation? 31 May 19
• Recognising Media Rhetoric – a Must Read 28 May 19
• Avoiding Scrutiny? 24 May 19
• Children Responding to the Current Consultation 20 May 19
• Once Bullied, now a Champion of Personalised Education 17 May 19
• Evidence or Hearsay 13 May 19
• Two Sides of the ‘Registration’ Argument 10 May 19
• A “New Age” for Home Education 6 May 19
• Annex A: What Local Authorities Really Want 3 May 19
• Independent Views 29 Apr 19
• The Basis for Changing the Landscape 26 Apr 19
• A Miscellany of Lighter Reading 23 Apr 19
• Humanists UK Welcomes Compulsory Home-School Register 15 Apr 19
• Separating the Guidance from the Consultation 12 Apr 19
• Isle of Man Education Bill – Legal Opinion 8 Apr 19
• Around the Counties – March 2019 5 Apr 19
• Registration but Not Monitoring – Really? 3 Apr 19
• Home Education, School Refusal and Parenting 1 Apr 19
• Are More EHE ‘Refugees’ about to Arrive? 29 Mar 19
• A Tragic Case Politically Reported 25 Mar 19
• School Funding Crisis Connects with Rise in Home Education 18 Mar 19
• Parents: Guilty until Proven Innocent? 15 Mar 19
• Isle of Man Education Bill – Important Update 13 Mar 19
• Cite Your Evidence Please 11 Mar 19
• Learning to Understand 8 Mar 19
• Parents Hit Back at Children’s Commissioner’s Criticism 4 Mar 19
• MPs Debate SEND Funding 1 Mar 19
• Longfield Seeks to Justify Herself 25 Feb 19
• Credit where Credit is Due 22 Feb 19
• “Registration is a Trojan Horse” 18 Feb 19
• Spin Alert! – The Guardian and Off-Rolling 15 Feb 19
• Home Truths: the Rise of Home Education 13 Feb 19
• Not Skipping School: Not Invisible Children 11 Feb 19
• Isle of Man – Guinea Pig for Registration & Monitoring of Home Education in Britain? 8 Feb 19
• Most Criticism of Home Education is Smoke without Fire 5 Feb 19
• Registration and Monitoring Proposals will be Published Separately from New Guidance 4 Feb 19
• What Local Authorities have said about Home Education 1 Feb 19
• More Spin from Soley’s Backers? 29 Jan 19
• Sensational Scottish Headline 25 Jan 19
• Eerily Quiet on the HE Front 18 Jan 19
• A Change of Tune? 11 Jan 19
• Home Education Policies in Europe 4 Jan 19
• Welsh Government Accepts Children Commissioner’s Recommendations 19 Dec 18
• Children’s Commissioner for Wales and Home Education 18 Dec 18
• More Spin than Fact 13 Dec 18
• ADCS 2018 Elective Home Education Survey 10 Dec 18
• Where is the Evidence of Abuse and Radicalisation? 3 Dec 18
• Setting the Record Straight 30 Nov 18
• Numbers Rising, but the Reasons for Choosing HE are Changing 26 Nov 18
• Our National Expectations for All Children 23 Nov 18
• Damien Hinds Comments on Home Education 21 Nov 18
• A Voice of Reason 19 Nov 18
• Resources to Help Combat Propaganda 15 Nov 18
• Directors of Children’s Services and Home Education 12 Nov 18
• Home Educators Equated with the American Gun Lobby 9 Nov 18
• Amanda Spielman’s “greatest concern” 5 Nov 18
• Radio 5 Live Interview with Lilian Hardy’s Father 1 Nov 18
• English Consultation – “Responses Are Still Being Analysed” 26 Oct 18
• Lord Soley’s Home Education Bill – R.I.P.? 22 Oct 18
• What Parents Say about Home Education 11 Oct 18
• Questions, questions, questions 3 Oct 18
• Big Issue features Home Education 27 Sep 18
• MPs and Education amongst Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities – 2 24 Sep 18
• MPs and Education amongst Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Communities – 1 20 Sep 18
• Dear Editor… HE in the Tes mailbag 17 Sep 18
• Anyone Interested in Real Evidence? 13 Sep 18
• Mr Hinds and the Home Learning Environment 10 Sep 18
• The Proof of the Pudding… 4 Sep 18
• Home Ed on the LibDem Fringe 31 Aug 18
• Open Minds, Closed Minds 23 Aug 18
• Well Done, Boys! 20 Aug 18
• Trusting Parents to Know What’s Best for Their Children 16 Aug 18
• The Truth about Home Schooling 13 Aug 18
• Freedom of Information Request – Consultation Submissions 9 Aug 18
• Baby P, David Cameron and Home Education 6 Aug 18
• Well Done, Girls! 2 Aug 18
• The Importance of Being Accurate 30 Jul 18
• Thoughts on Measuring what You Value 26 Jul 18
• The Myth of HE Radicalisation 23 Jul 18
• The Latest Ludicrous Claim about EHE 19 Jul 18
• The Guardian View on Home Education 17 Jul 18
• Diverse Support for Home Educators 16 Jul 18
• Petitions and Politicians 12 Jul 18
• A Petition to the Scottish Parliament 9 Jul 18
• A Friend in High Places 5 Jul 18
• The True Freedom of Home Education 2 Jul 18
• You’d Better be Telling the Truth, Mr. Hinds! 27 Jun 18
• Children Missing Education: a Breakdown of the Stats 25 Jun 18
• Wise Words from Down Under 22 Jun 18
• Looking on the Bright Side of HE Life 18 Jun 18
• Some Truths About Exclusions 14 Jun 18
• Question 26 – Are there any other comments you wish to make… 11 Jun 18
• The Times, Home Education and Fake News 6 Jun 18
• Living Wisely in a Hostile Environment 31 May 18
• Integrated Communities Strategy – Making Your Response 18 May 18
• The Original Alternative Provision – Home Education 16 May 18
• The Commissioner of Education is Responsible for Keeping the Child Safe 12 May 18
• Rising school exclusions and EHE 10 May 18
• MP Encourages HE Parents to Take Part in Consultation 8 May 18
• Police track hundreds of ‘invisible’ home-schoolers 2 May 18
• If It Appears 30 Apr 18
• Could Mediation Help? 28 Apr 18
• Home Education Makes (Radio) Waves 27 Apr 18
• Notification or Registration – What is the Difference? 26 Apr 18
• The Rights of the Child? 25 Apr 18
• English Consultations Update 24 Apr 18
• Will the Lessons of Windrush be Applied to Home Education? 18 Apr 18
• Fears of bullying drives Muslim children to being homeschooled 15 Apr 18
• Muslims, home education and risk in British society 12 Apr 18
• Home Education Consultation and Call for Evidence Launched! 11 Apr 18
• Consultation Due in “Next few weeks” According to Government 6 Apr 18
• Soley Bill – Committee Stage and Further Amendments 5 Apr 18
• A Meeting with the LibDems and Other Interested Parties 4 Apr 18
• Asking Poor Questions Receives Poor Answers 30 Mar 18
• SATs are for Schools not Families 28 Mar 18
• Homeschooling: A Class Apart? The Wright Stuff – Channel 5 24 Mar 18
• Safer in the Hands of the State? 23 Mar 18
• Making a Life-changing Decision 22 Mar 18
• Holding the Liberal Democrats to Account 21 Mar 18
• Protecting Children and Bridging Social Divides 20 Mar 18
• Lord Lucas Amendments – 8th March 17 Mar 18
• One Battle Won 16 Mar 18
• Home Education Freedom Charter 16 Mar 18
• Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper & EHE 14 Mar 18
• The Absurdity of Homeschooling Fanatics 14 Mar 18
• Do home-educated children find the world of work harder? 13 Mar 18
• Pressure as Schools ‘Shovel’ Children Back to Parents 13 Mar 18
• Demanding powers to look for a problem 12 Mar 18
• Human Rights Framework of the Right to Home Educate 12 Mar 18
• Lord Lucas Amendments – 7th March 11 Mar 18
• Lord Lucas Amendment – 1st March 11 Mar 18
• Say it like it is 9 Mar 18
• Extremist Home Educators are Known to the Police 9 Mar 18
• Are Parents Suitably Qualified to Educate their Children? 8 Mar 18
• Pupils Outside of Mainstream Schools – Amanda Spielman 8 Mar 18
• Take Home Education Out of the Shadows 7 Mar 18
• House of Commons Briefing Paper on Home Education in England 7 Mar 18
• Further Concerns about Unregistered Schools 2 Mar 18
• Home Ed Parents Prepared to go to Jail 2 Mar 18
• Damian Hinds’ Plan for a Crackdown 2 Mar 18
• Isle of Man Home Education – Who Defines “Suitable”? 2 Mar 18
• It’s State Education, not Home Schooling, we Need to Worry About 2 Mar 18
• Legions of Home Educated Children are Missing 2 Mar 18
• Will the Liberal Democrats Change their Home Education Spots? 2 Mar 18
• Plenary National Assembly for Wales Statement by Cabinet Secretary for Education 2 Mar 18
• The Local Government Association Lobbies Peers 2 Mar 18
• Freedom of Information Request – Lord Soley and Daniel Monk 2 Mar 18
• Freedom of Information Request – Lord Soley and AEHEP 2 Mar 18
• Registering Home Educated Children in Wales 2 Mar 18
• Ofsted’s Eleanor Schooling on Home Education 2 Mar 18
• The National Secular Society and Home Education 2 Mar 18
• Lord Lucas – Defending Home Educators 2 Mar 18
• Headteacher Writes in Support of EHE 2 Mar 18