Registration but Not Monitoring – Really?
What’s been said? Most home educators will be aware that yesterday, 2 April, the DfE finally responded to last year’s Call for Evidence. Just under a year after that consultation Education Secretary, …
Category: England
Home Education, School Refusal and Parenting
What’s been said? On 18 March 2019, Devon County Council’s Children’s Scrutiny Committee held a meeting which included discussion about the annual Children with Special Educational Needs Education Report. This exchange [video] …
Are More EHE ‘Refugees’ about to Arrive?
What’s been said? It’s becoming more and more apparent that the increasing numbers of EHE children are the result of a combination of circumstances. The previous model of parents motivated by a …
A Tragic Case Politically Reported
What’s been said? On 8 March Derbyshire Live carried an article by Eddie Bisknell reporting the death of a young person who was home-educated over “a number of years” and “is known …
School Funding Crisis Connects with Rise in Home Education
What’s been said? David Drew, Labour & Co-op, Stroud, is a former teacher. He submitted a Written Question about off-rolling which was answered on 26 November 2018. On 30 Jan 2019 he …
Parents: Guilty until Proven Innocent?
What’s been said? Kerry McDonald, education policy writer and unschooling advocate from Massachusetts, comments perceptively on UK demands for registration and monitoring of HE families in her article Homeschoolers: Guilty Until Proven …