What Exactly is a Voluntary Registration Scheme?
This is a third article written in response to the 2023 consultation on proposed revised guidance on elective home education in England. However it also has relevance for families in Wales, where …
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Conflicting Views on the ‘Voice of the Child’
Scottish Government publish the responses to their home education guidance consultation along with an analysis of them What’s been said? On 2 February the Scottish Government Children & Families and Education Learning …
Proposals for Local Authority Registers Create Wider Concerns
Articles published on websites outside the HE communities emphasise the dangers of the plans for registers of children not in school for all families, especially as they are now being conflated with …
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 …
Amanda Spielman on Monitoring and Civil Liberties
Ofsted’s Chief Inspector expresses her frustrations that traditional British values work against the registration and monitoring of home educated children What’s been said? Despite its failures to provide a formal response to …
The Confusion and Conflicts Caused by the Interpretation of Children’s Rights
National and international claims are increasing that permitting home education infringes the rights of a child – but are these arguments justified? What’s been said? Universal human rights are a relatively recent …