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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 …
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 …
By Georgina Farron (first published in Highland Perthshire News, April 2014) ‘Every child will have a designated Named Person whose job is to be a first point of contact for you and any other concerns about your child or young Read More …
The triumvirate (‘three stooges’) judgement on the appeal by NO2NP campaigners to the Inner House of the Scottish Court of Session came as no great surprise to any of us this week, because this important case has always been expected to go Read More …
As the bodies of GIRFEC victims start piling up across Scotland (and not just those from the home ed community), we thought we’d start at the beginning of the council alphabet and shine a bright searchlight on the various publicly Read More …
