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An inquiry by the UK Parliament’s Children, Schools and Families Committee has been announced into the review of elective home education in England which was commissioned by the DCSF and conducted by Graham Badman. The recommendations outlined in Mr Badman’s report, which Read More …
From the AHEd wiki. Links to sections of the comprehensive briefing paper prepared by AHEd in response to the 2009 Badman review of home education in England. Who is AHEd? 1. CURRENT SITUATION Ensuring Suitable Education Local Authority Duties and Read More …
ID cards for babies. Preposterous? Read on. Home educators originally began to research the amount of information which was being gathered about children purely from a self-preservation point of view when it appeared that proposed changes to the education and Read More …
By Amy There once lived a man, a joyful man, in an age of fear and sadness. A man, and nothing more – born of flesh, to return to dust, like all before him, and all who would follow. A Read More …
Carolyne Willow’s opinion piece in the Guardian, in which she criticises the Badman home education proposals as being unhelpful for children, has attracted a wide range of readers’ comments. While some commentators clearly see his DCSF commissioned report for what it is Read More …
