Children Responding to the Current Consultation
What’s been said? Who reads the small print? Who reads the T&Cs when buying on-line? Very few of us can be bothered, but there are times when it is wise to do …
Once Bullied, now a Champion of Personalised Education
What’s been said? On 25 April the Star (Sheffield) carried a report where home education in the form of private tuition became the solution to repeated bullying of a year 9 pupil: …
Evidence or Hearsay
What’s been said? On 13 April, V Colvin submitted a Freedom of Information Request [FoIR] to the Department for Education. In it Colvin quoted two statements from the third paragraph of the …
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 …