Covid-19, GCSEs and Home Education
Government and Ofqual exploring options for awarding grades to home educated students What’s been said? How society has changed in the last week! Recently we reported on a chain of cloned local …
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Standing Up to Anne Longfield’s Rhetoric
Woman’s Hour discussion demonstrates that if home educators are given the opportunity, they can answer their critics! What’s been said? We recently wrote about how a Northamptonshire Serious Case Review about an …
Home Education – a “Problem” that won’t Go Away
Home education continues to feature in parliamentary business What’s been said? This Byte reviews references made to HE in parliamentary business since the beginning of the year. On 7 January Lord Pearson …
“The Safest Place for a Child to be is in School”
Essex councillors are concerned that your children are not being monitored What’s been said? We recently highlighted a briefing presented to councillors in Essex seeking approval to lobby government for greater powers …
Ofsted Annual Report 2018-19
Home education features in the context of off-rolling and unregistered schools What’s been said? 21 January saw the publication of Ofsted’s Annual Report for the academic year 2018-19. The opening letter to …
Essex Councillors Fear Home Educated Children are Joining Gangs
Guilt by rumoured association is on the increase, thanks to Longfield and Spielman What’s been said? The misleading headline “Essex parents who home school now face a £1,000 fine if they mess …