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 …
Category: England
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 …
Debate Highlights the Need for Home Educators to Change the Narrative
MPs debate motion “That this House has considered the potential merits of a register of not-in-school children” ahead of the Second Reading of Flick Drummond’s Private Member’s Bill on LA Children Not …
Ex-minister says Ofsted should check on home-school parents
Tory Peer, Lord Nash, implores Bridget Phillipson to ensure Labour bring in registration and tighten up inspection and regulation of home educated families when they are in government, claiming four-fifths of parents …