“Improving support for children missing education”
Call for evidence which was published in May closes on 20 July, and is very relevant to home education What’s been said? Whilst we’re all very much aware that home educating families …
Tag: Department for Education
Dissecting the Myths and Presenting the Facts
New report examining research evidence on elective home education and other alternatives to school finds in favour of protecting parental responsibility for education. What’s been said? Update October 2025 – the Centre …
Demise of the Schools Bill Finally Confirmed
The million dollar question was eventually answered by Gillian Keegan during an Education Committee Accountability Hearing on Wednesday 7 December, three months after rumours had begun to circulate! What’s been said? “What …
We Reckoned Without Our Host
“All compromise with institutions of which your conscience disapproves, compromises which are usually made for the sake of the general good, instead of producing the good you expected, inevitably lead you not …
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 …