Damian Hinds’ Plan for a Crackdown
What was said? According to the Sunday Times (15 February 2018) Damian Hinds, Secretary of State for Education, is going to “get tough” – he plans a “crackdown” on illegal schools to …
Category: England
It’s State Education, not Home Schooling, we Need to Worry About
What’s been said? Writing in Conservative Woman (20 February 2018) Chris McGovern (Chairman of the Campaign for Real Education; a retired head teacher with 35 years’ teaching experience, and a former advisor …
Legions of Home Educated Children are Missing
What’s been said? According to the Sunday Times (18 February 2018) ‘legions’ of children are missing in home education. Quoting the well documented cases of Dylan Seabridge and Khyra Ishaq, together with …
The Local Government Association Lobbies Peers
What’s been said? On 24 January 2018, the Local Government Association [LGA] published a briefing on Home Education to the House of Lords. The LGA is an organisation which maintains communication between …
Freedom of Information Request – Lord Soley and Daniel Monk
What’s been said? A previous piece considered aspects of the information to emerge from a FoIR to Lancashire County Council in regard to its staff’s contact with Lord Soley. This comment concentrates …
Freedom of Information Request – Lord Soley and AEHEP
What’s been said? A few days after the Second Reading of Lord Soley’s Bill Lancashire County Council received a FOI request to “Please provide a copy of all communications (if any) specific …