Genuine Reporting or Covert Campaign?
“Cloned” article about HE appears in multiple local newspapers What’s been said? A mysterious occurrence has taken place in the media during early March. Articles about rising numbers of children in home …
Tag: LGA
Gateshead EHE Consultation Fails to Follow LGA Guidelines
Consultation on Draft HE Strategy for the next five years open for just five weeks until 17 January! What’s been said? Gateshead Council’s website carries an announcement about a consultation which opened …
LGA Presses for Monitoring of EHE Children
What’s been said? On 16 July the Local Government Association [LGA] website featured an article entitled, “Government urged to toughen up home education plans.” The timing and purpose of this item is …
Independent Views
What’s been said? The topic of home education has received consistent coverage in various sections of the Independent. Their Education Correspondent Eleanor Busby published two articles on 2 April. The first, headed …
Not Skipping School: Not Invisible Children
What’s been said? On Monday 4 February Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, launched a media storm seemingly to persuade the public that “there are tens of thousands of children in England” …
Home Ed on the LibDem Fringe
What’s been said? Recently we reminded our readers that the Political Conference season would soon be here, and made a passing reference to the new policy on EHE which the Liberal Democrats …