Your children or everyone’s children?
A look at recently appointed Education Secretary’s words to her DfE staff team What’s been said? A new broom sweeps clean. The Labour Government has lost no time in making its mark …
Tag: Labour
Party Manifestos and the Family
An examination of different parties’ policy statements around ‘supporting families,’ and how such proposals would play out in the early years relationships between parents and their children What’s been said? In our …
Party Manifestos and Home Education
An overview of different parties commitments re home education and other policies which undermine the role of parents in the lives of their children What’s been said? There has been a frantic …
York MP holds DfE’s Feet to the Fire with Barrage of Written Questions
Multiple Written Questions submitted in quick succession by Rachael Maskell in ten days, some featuring home education! What’s been said? Rachael Maskell (Labour/Co-operative, York Central) is a prolific user of Written Questions …
Ex-minister says Ofsted should check on home-school parents
Tory Peer, Lord Nash, implores Bridget Phillipson to ensure Labour bring in registration and tighten up inspection and regulation of home educated families when they are in government, claiming four-fifths of parents …
Labour Plays Politics with Your Children!
When news broke that the Opposition had decided to use one of their allocated days to debate ‘Children Not in School’ registers, the fear was that they were reaching out to secure …