When Good Parents Do Nothing
What’s been said? In the early 1950s one parent, Joy Baker, stood up to officialdom in order to exercise her right to educate her own children rather than let the state decide …
Tag: Welsh Assembly
Protecting Your Children’s Privacy
What’s been said? Across the UK, governments are increasingly turning to data sharing to monitor their citizens’ lives. The latest example of this is the Welsh consultation, which proposes a new requirement …
Safeguarding – Not just a Welsh Consultation Issue
What’s been said? This post considers the issue of “safeguarding” raised by the Welsh consultation on new EHE guidelines. We do stress, however, that these issues also apply to HE families across …
Welsh Consultation – The Rights of the Child
What’s been said? This second comment on the Welsh consultation considers its numerous references to phrases such as “the rights of all children to receive an education.” In her Ministerial foreword, Kirsty …
Thinking About Responding to the Welsh Consultation?
What’s been said? At the end of July the Welsh government launched a consultation on new guidelines for home education. The consultation closes on 21 October. If the proposals are implemented, they …
Revised EHE Guidance Proposed for Scotland
What’s been said? In a similar exchange to the one which recently indicated two imminent EHE consultations in Wales, the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, stated in May that his …