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 …
Tag: Children Not in School
Children’s Commissioner Leads a Chorus of “And So Say All of Us”
Rachel de Souza is far from alone in calling for all children to be in school, with the Government’s own report on the first meeting of the new “attendance alliance” demonstrating that …
Plans for a Register Take a Step Nearer
Government minister says the Department for Education “have responded” to the Children Not in School consultation, but nothing has been published. Update: On 4 January 22, Baroness Barran wrote to Lord Soley …
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 …
The Language of Statism
Do the Education Secretary’s words demonstrate that the Government believes in the primacy of families, or will his rhetoric fade away in the future reality of policies such as a register of …
Orchestrated Lobbying Conflates Home Education with “Illegal Schools”
Members of an All Party Parliamentary Group outnumber other speakers by two to one in response to Lord Soley’s Oral Question What’s been said? The name on the House of Lords order …