Two Sides of the ‘Registration’ Argument
What’s been said “Home-schooling is just another way for controlling parents to dominate and diminish their children’s lives” cries the headline in the Independent on 5 April 2019. The article, written by …
A “New Age” for Home Education
What’s been said? Rachel Wolf was an education and innovation adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron. Previously she had advised the Conservative Party on education before becoming a policy adviser to Boris …
Annex A: What Local Authorities Really Want
What’s been said? We recently commented on the opening three sections of the DfE’s response to the 2018 consultation. The next part, Annex A, is a question by question analysis of the …
Independent Views
What’s been said? The topic of home education has received consistent coverage in various sections of the Independent. Their Education Correspondent Eleanor Busby published two articles on 2 April. The first, headed …
The Basis for Changing the Landscape
What’s been said? The detailed Government consultation response to the 2018 EHE Call for Evidence was amongst several documents published on 2 April. The opening four sections on pages 3-10 (Introduction; Summary …
A Miscellany of Lighter Reading
What’s been said? At times one needs to take a break from perusing government documents and look again at the wider picture. To that end, this Byte links to three recent items, …