What on Earth is Happening to the Schools Bill?
A Prime Minister resigns, three Education Secretaries within thirty-six hours, their Noble Lords are in revolt and the Department for Education tries to pretend there is nothing wrong with Parts 3 & …
Tag: Children Not in School
A Rush Job, Thrown into the Public Domain Before it was Ready?
Schools Bill severely criticised for lack of proper detail in Lords Committee Stage first sitting What’s been said? The Schools Bill has been making waves in the House of Lords even before …
Counting Children
Challenging rhetoric and addressing long-standing confusion over the assertion that collecting data on every child matters What’s been said? This Byte reports on four recent items, two from Defend Digital Me [DDM] …
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 …
Proposals for Local Authority Registers Create Wider Concerns
Articles published on websites outside the HE communities emphasise the dangers of the plans for registers of children not in school for all families, especially as they are now being conflated with …
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 …