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Alison Preuss was recently a guest on the ‘Homeschooling Around the World’ podcast where she chatted to HSLDA’s Mike Donnelly about her own home educating journey and the history of home education activism / organisation in Scotland, including the Scottish Read More …
The (renamed) Education, Children & Young People Committee of the Scottish Parliament has revisited our GIRFEC petition in which we (jointly with Tymes Trust) call for a public inquiry into the human rights impact on families of unlawful GIRFEC data Read More …
Our advocacy colleague and vice-convener of Home Education Scotland, Mark Nixon, comments in today’s Courier on home education during anticipated school closures and lockdown, his key message being: replicating school at home is ill-advised. Coronavirus: ‘Let anxious kids play online Read More …
The Scottish Home Education Forum has today (10 March 2020) published its findings from an in-depth investigation of local authorities’ policies, practices and relationships with home educating families in Scotland. Drawing on data from freedom of information requests to all 32 councils, Read More …
The Herald has covered the scandal of the ‘Tinker Experiment’ in Scotland, whereby Gypsy Travellers were subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment by the authorities in an attempt to assimilate them into ‘mainstream’ society. For anyone who has been following Read More …
