A “New Age” for Home Education
What’s been said? Rachel Wolf was an education and innovation adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron. Previously she had advised the Conservative Party on education before becoming a policy adviser to Boris …
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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 …
Registration but Not Monitoring – Really?
What’s been said? Most home educators will be aware that yesterday, 2 April, the DfE finally responded to last year’s Call for Evidence. Just under a year after that consultation Education Secretary, …
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” …
Most Criticism of Home Education is Smoke without Fire
What has been said? On 21 January Tes (previously Times Educational Supplement) published an article entitled “Most criticism of home education is smoke without fire,” in which Randall Hardy, a home educator, …
Where is the Evidence of Abuse and Radicalisation?
What’s been said? On 15 November, Tulip Siddiq MP (Lab. Hampstead and Kilburn) submitted a written question with the heading Home Education: Radicalism. She also asked about abuse, writing: “To ask the …