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The Scottish Home Education Forum has today (10 March 2020) published its findings from an in-depth investigation of local authorities’ policies, practices and relationships with home educating families in Scotland. Drawing on data from freedom of information requests to all 32 councils, Read More …
We have posted previously about this 11-signature Scottish Parliament petition calling for the registration (or ‘licensing’) of home educated children, in particular highlighting our concerns over omissions and inaccuracies in the accompanying SPICe briefing. It is our intention – time Read More …
Following the meeting of the Education and Skills Committee on 27 November 2019, the Convener wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills for an update as to when the suite of products referred to in a previous letter in Read More …
Nineteen years ago this new year, the then Scottish Executive tried to crush home educators in Scotland with draconian guidance designed to trash our freedom in education. However, we galvanised political support, we marched up the Mound with our children Read More …
The Herald has covered the scandal of the ‘Tinker Experiment’ in Scotland, whereby Gypsy Travellers were subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment by the authorities in an attempt to assimilate them into ‘mainstream’ society. For anyone who has been following Read More …
