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