off-rolling – The HE Byte

OSA Annual Report Speaks of Rising EHE Numbers

By Team Fri 13 Mar 20 Thu 12 Mar 20

Whilst home education receives minimal attention in the text, it features prominently in parliament and in the press What’s been said? A joint press release on 24 February from the Department for …

“The Safest Place for a Child to be is in School”

By Team Mon 3 Feb 20 Fri 31 Jan 20

Essex councillors are concerned that your children are not being monitored What’s been said? We recently highlighted a briefing presented to councillors in Essex seeking approval to lobby government for greater powers …

Ofsted Annual Report 2018-19

By Team Fri 31 Jan 20 Thu 30 Jan 20

Home education features in the context of off-rolling and unregistered schools What’s been said? 21 January saw the publication of Ofsted’s Annual Report for the academic year 2018-19. The opening letter to …

Hungry for Your Children’s Data?

By Team Fri 10 Jan 20 Thu 9 Jan 20

FFT Education Datalab’s external affairs manager calls for an HE register What’s been said? In early December Claudia Civinini wrote an article on the Tes website entitled, “Disadvantage gap widens when off-rolled …

Meanwhile Back in Westminster – Albeit Briefly

By Team Fri 1 Nov 19 Thu 31 Oct 19

Make the upcoming election about more than Brexit What’s been said? For understandable reasons the British home educating community has had its attention focussed on the Welsh proposals in recent weeks. We …

Ofsted Continues to Lobby against HE Parents

By Team Mon 21 Oct 19 Sun 20 Oct 19

What’s been said? A press release “Home education: a choice or last resort?” on 15 Oct announced the publication of new research by Ofsted entitled, ‘Exploring moving to home education in secondary …