The Guardian View on Home Education
What’s been said? The Guardian published a particularly pointless editorial on 15 July 2018, sparked by sentencing following the death of Jordan Burling. It’s a classic case of the type much beloved …
Diverse Support for Home Educators
What’s been said? In the days immediately before the English consultation deadline, it seems that some organisations realised the importance of encouraging their supporters and friends to stand up for home educators …
Petitions and Politicians
What’s been said? Most home educators in the UK are all too painfully aware of the Call for Evidence on Elective Home Education and consultation on revised guidance documents which we had …
A Petition to the Scottish Parliament
What’s been said? With the pressures of recent weeks, during which English home educators have been focussed on the DfE consultation, it has been easy for them to forget that HE is …
A Friend in High Places
What’s been said? The Local Government Association [LGA] published an article in edition 623 of their magazine First (May 2018, page 7) entitled ‘Register home-schooled children’, says LGA. It refers to the …
The True Freedom of Home Education
What’s been said? In February 2018, the BBC website posted a video describing the experience of unschooling. The parent concerned feels that unschooling differs from home education in that her children can …