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Readers will recall that Perth and Kinross Council has featured disproportionately in our news items after its Child Protection Committee sought to deliberately discredit home educators by labelling them as likely child abusers. Robbing the graves of murdered children in Read More …
Hidden from whom? The ongoing stigmatisation of home educators Perth and Kinross Council’s Child Protection Committee has sunk to NSPCC levels in disseminating deliberate falsehoods about home education. We are angry on behalf of home educators, whose lives these Pinocchio people Read More …
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 …
It looks like the English may have a few lessons to teach the Welsh and the Scots when it comes to law abiding minorities and elective home education. Oh how we yawned when they announced an inquiry by Westminster’s Education Read More …
Further to our recent post on the Scottish Government’s Engage for Education website, in particular the first in a series of blog posts by members of the GIRFEC Programme Board, we were once again becoming concerned that some ‘engaging’ comments might have vanished into the Read More …
