Children’s rights, double standards and dodgy labelling

Children’s rights are frequently and increasingly being ‘wronged’ by those who seek to impose obligations in the guise of ‘protecting’ such rights – and never more so than when it comes to children and young people exercising their ‘right to education’. Note that the Read More …

Welsh Government shelves parent licensing plans

Following a deluge of responses to the Welsh Government’s consultation on its misguided proposals to introduce parent licensing for home educators as part of the forthcoming Education (Wales) Bill, plans for such a scheme have now been officially shelved. In Read More …

Conference Report: Dealing with Highly Intrusive Parasitic Public Servants

Report of the online conference hosted by Home Education Forums on 29 May 2012. Dealing with Highly Intrusive Parasitic Public Servants Practical strategies to tackle intrusive threatening and bullying behaviour disguised as ‘support’ Introduction This conference, while aiming to give Read More …