Lobbying, Lobbying and more Lobbying
Cross-party demands for registration and greater oversight of children not in school continue unabated on either side of the Christmas recess. [Stop Press: We have included at the end of this Byte …
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The Truth Always Matters
The Independent Press Standards Organisation [IPSO] has upheld a complaint that Sir Iain Duncan Smith’s article in the Daily Telegraph, 27 March 2023, breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) of the Editors’ Code of …
Plans for a Register Take a Step Nearer
Government minister says the Department for Education “have responded” to the Children Not in School consultation, but nothing has been published. Update: On 4 January 22, Baroness Barran wrote to Lord Soley …
Department for Education Seeks to Oversee what You Teach Your Children!
Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse hears from senior civil servant that registration of children not in school is only the first step to planned monitoring of EHE children and assessment of …
Department for Education Announces a Registration Scheme in its Select Committee Submission
Does this mean that the recent lobbying by Halfon, the LGA, the ADCS and others has been superfluous, or is it a signal that a register is just the next step towards …
Anne Longfield informs MPs that a compulsory EHE register has been “Agreed”
Children’s Commissioner for England pushes for monitoring and makes claim about Department of Education decision on register during Education Committee hearing What’s been said? On 6 October 2020 during a Parliamentary House …