Annex A: What Local Authorities Really Want
What’s been said? We recently commented on the opening three sections of the DfE’s response to the 2018 consultation. The next part, Annex A, is a question by question analysis of the …
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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 …
Separating the Guidance from the Consultation
What’s been said? Last week the Department for Education published its revised guidance for EHE in England, and at the same time launched a consultation on introducing a registration scheme. In the …
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, …
A Tragic Case Politically Reported
What’s been said? On 8 March Derbyshire Live carried an article by Eddie Bisknell reporting the death of a young person who was home-educated over “a number of years” and “is known …
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” …