A Meeting with the LibDems and Other Interested Parties
What’s been said? Recently, Mike Wood of Home Education UK published on his website notes of a meeting he attended in the House of Lords on 13 March 2018, with a number …
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Lord Lucas Amendments – 8th March
What’s been said? Unusually Lord Lucas drip-fed his amendments to Lord Soley’s Bill into the parliamentary system. Comments are available on his first and second sets of amendments. His third collection, identified …
Integrated Communities Strategy Green Paper & EHE
What’s been said? Anyone listening to Dame Louise Casey on this morning’s (14/3/18) Today Programme, would have noticed that she mentioned home education repeatedly. This was in connection with the Integrated Communities …
Pressure as Schools ‘Shovel’ Children Back to Parents
What’s been said? When meeting with the Education Select Committee recently, Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of Schools, talked about schools which ‘shovel’ children with whom they can’t cope back onto parents who …
Extremist Home Educators are Known to the Police
What’s been said? According to an article in the Sunday Times (4 March 2018) police have been aware since 2015 of 35 extremists who removed their children to home education from state …
Further Concerns about Unregistered Schools
What’s been said? BBC News at Six on 26 February 2018 broadcast an interview with Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills, in which she called yet again for …