The Schools Bill has Landed!
Despite recent and oft repeated signalling by the Department for Education that parliamentary time had not been allocated for the introduction of CNiS registers, the Schools Bill came quickly out of the …
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Important but Apparently Forgotten Historic Ministerial Letters
Two letters written fifteen years ago provide important insights into the current moves to impose state supervision on home educating families What’s been said? It appears that for over a decade, two …
The Long Awaited Response to the CNiS Consultation
Does the Department for Education’s response actually contain any new information, and if so, what is it? What’s been said? Most home educators will be aware by now that on 3 February …
Department for Education Seeks to Oversee what You Teach Your Children!
Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse hears from senior civil servant that registration of children not in school is only the first step to planned monitoring of EHE children and assessment of …
Academic warns against ill-informed and prejudicial policy-making
Leading academic urges Halfon not to squander the opportunity to make England a world leader in flexible, individualised education What’s been said? Dr Harriet Pattison is a Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood …
Education Committee’s Report is not What it Says on the Tin
Identifying the unexplained assumption which lay behind the Education Committee’s inquiry into Home Education. What’s been said? When the Education Select Committee announced its inquiry into “Home Education,” we encouraged home educating …