Northern Irish Consultations

This consultation is now closed

Draft ”Guidelines for Elective Home Education”

On 29 May 2019 the Northern Ireland Education Authority [EA] launched a twelve week public consultation on its draft ”Guidelines for Elective Home Education”. The consultation will close at 12 noon on Wednesday 21 August 2019.

Official webpage

On-line Response Form

The following documents were published as part of the consultation:

• EA draft Guidelines for Elective Home Education – pdf
• EA Easy Read draft Guidelines for Elective Home Education – pdf
• Equality and Rural Screening for EA draft Guidelines for Elective Home Education – pdf

Members of Home Education Northern Ireland [HEdNI] have been involved in discussions with EA since a previous consultation in 2014. We recommend that those wishing to respond to this consultation look at the following material published on their website:

• 2019 Consultation – initial announcement with background
• Consultation Brief – a short discussion of the key issues [PDF]
• Consultation Responses – publicly shared by those who have already responded

PDF Documents by the HE Byte Team:

• A facsimile of the On-line Response Form for easy reference when preparing your response

Bytes commenting on this consultation:

• Hard Work Pays Off (10 Jun)