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Child Benefit is usually paid for a young person up to the Monday following 31 August, after their 16th birthday. If the young person does not intend to stay on in full-time further education or approved training, you do not Read More …
It has often been remarked that getting home educators to agree on anything, let alone come together as any recognised movement, is a bit like herding cats. However, following the UK Government’s announcement in January of its latest review of Read More …
The Scottish Government Education Directorate has today (10 January 2008) issued revised statutory guidance on home education, which sets out the respective roles and responsibilities of parents, children and education authorities. You can read the Guidance online here: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/12/17133313/0 Also Read More …
In a written answer to a Parliamentary Question on home education by Andrew Arbuckle MSP, Education Minister Peter Peacock has affirmed that education authorities have no powers to ‘inspect’ home education and underlined their negative duties to act in the Read More …
We are place-marking this important debate on the Education and Inspections Bill in the House of Lords on 17 October 2006. It covers a number of important issues regarding the right to education and how it might be realised. It also Read More …
