Home Education Policies in Europe
What’s been said? A thirty-four page document entitled Home Education Policies in Europe was issued in October 2018 by the Publications Office of the European Union. It is part of a range …
Welsh Government Accepts Children Commissioner’s Recommendations
What’s been said? Our previous Byte reported the Children’s Commissioner for Wales’ recent comments on home education. On 28 November the Welsh Government published its response [PDF] to her Annual Report. Both …
Children’s Commissioner for Wales and Home Education
What’s been said? When Professor Sally Holland, Children’s Commissioner for Wales, published her 2018 Annual Report in October, she commented that this was the third year she had “called on the Welsh …
More Spin than Fact
What’s been said? Hull Daily Mail reporter Angus Young’s 29 November article, “Schools are encouraging parents to home-educate kids to improve their performance” was no more HE-friendly than his previous one on …
ADCS 2018 Elective Home Education Survey
What’s been said? In November the Association of Directors of Children’s Services published the third of its annual surveys [PDF] of LA’s and EHE. Overall the document provides some useful information, despite …
Where is the Evidence of Abuse and Radicalisation?
What’s been said? On 15 November, Tulip Siddiq MP (Lab. Hampstead and Kilburn) submitted a written question with the heading Home Education: Radicalism. She also asked about abuse, writing: “To ask the …