Home Education Freedom Charter
What’s been said? Concerned about current attacks on the freedoms of home educators, Caroline Ellis has created a Home Education Freedom Charter. Caroline writes about prejudice and hostility both in Parliament and …
Category: England
Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper & EHE
What’s been said? Anyone listening to Dame Louise Casey on this morning’s (14/3/18) Today Programme, would have noticed that she mentioned home education repeatedly. This was in connection with the Integrated Communities …
The Absurdity of Homeschooling Fanatics
What’s been said? Clare Foges, Times columnist and erstwhile speechwriter for David Cameron, shared some observations about British Values in the Comment section of the paper this week (10 March 2018). Her …
Pressure as Schools ‘Shovel’ Children Back to Parents
What’s been said? When meeting with the Education Select Committee recently, Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of Schools, talked about schools which ‘shovel’ children with whom they can’t cope back onto parents who …
Lord Lucas Amendments – 7th March
What’s been said? We have already commented on Lord Lucas’ first amendment to Lord Soley’s Bill. A week later he tabled two further amendments in what is listed here as “HL Bill …
Lord Lucas Amendment – 1st March
What’s been said? Recently Lord Lucas has been busy proposing amendments to Lord Soley’s Home Education (Duty of Local Authorities) Bill [HL]. The first simply adds the following restriction to the requirement …