Witness statements from HE parent and LGA Vice Chair provide informative insights into what is at stake for home educated children and their families. What’s been said? Tuesday 4 February saw the …
Minister’s Committee Stage responses shine further light on the Department for Education’s underlying intentions to build a complete “picture of home-educated children’s circumstances.” What’s been said? After fourteen sessions scrutinising the Children’s …
Stop Press: As this Byte was being drafted, on 23 January the Scottish Government announced the publication of their new Guidance for Local Authorities and Parents on Home Education. This revision “will …
Peer pushes back forcefully against current proposals to regulate home education, and spotlights some root issues at play here What’s been said? The Telegraph featured an excellent article by Lord David Frost …
What’s been said? Emma Duncan doesn’t mince her words in her Times comment piece It’s time to put home schooling in detention [Archive Today copy – free to read] published on 9 …
This is the third of a multi-part series on Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, introduced in the House of Commons on 17 December. This article considers how the conflation of ‘welfare’ …
