Rainbow worship and talking through colons

Image: Early Years Collaborative  The SHANARRI worshipping bash of the year was held in Glasgow last week in the form of Children in Scotland’s annual conference 2015 [#CISAC2015] with a traditionally colonic title, Gamechangers: Transforming our children’s sector.

Home education under threat as Ireland joins the UNCRC ‘pick and mix’ party

Irish home educators are once again under threat as proposals have been covertly concocted, with no stakeholder consultation, to allow state agents to access private family homes and force children to submit to interrogation by strangers without their consent. In tried and tested dissembling fashion, the Read More …

Tally-ho! Call by Borders Council to overturn home ed hunting ban

Scottish Borders Council apparently doesn’t have enough to do. Not content with adhering to the primary legislation (Education (Scotland) Act 1980) and guidance framework, in which their role in relation to elective home education is rightly very limited since the provision Read More …