What Exactly is a Voluntary Registration Scheme?
This is a third article written in response to the 2023 consultation on proposed revised guidance on elective home education in England. However it also has relevance for families in Wales, where …
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Worrying Agenda being Advanced by the AAA
Influential educationalists on the Attendance Action Alliance seek to move the boundaries of State overreach further into family life. What’s been said? In politics, we are accustomed to hearing about new policies …
The English Labour Party is Committed to CNiS Registers
Buried in a ‘long read’ about Labour’s plan for education should they win the next election is a statement about resurrecting the proposals for registers and curbing unregistered schools. What’s been said? …
Protect Your Valuable Data
Research project highlights dangers of undeclared, intrusive use of data by local authorities What’s been said? Professors Ros Edwards (University of Southampton) and Val Gillies (University of Westminster) are co-directing a very …
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 …
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 …