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Highland Council has been urged to carry out a full-scale review of its version of the Scottish government’s scrapped named person scheme by a Conservative councillor. Our comments are included in this BBC piece: Call for review of Highlands version Read More …
According to the beleaguered John Swinney, the “named person approach” will continue, despite the controversial policy having been withdrawn from law after a humiliating defeat in the Supreme Court. Named Person ‘approach’ will continue reveals John Swinney Mr Swinney said Read More …
Our attention was recently drawn to this SPICe briefing in respect of Scottish Parliament Petition PE01730 (with 11 signatures), which calls for the ‘registration’ (or, more accurately, ‘licensing’) of children who are electively home educated in Scotland. We will critique Read More …
Errors have been spotted in Scottish Government guidance Included, engaged and involved part 1: promoting and managing school attendance (‘Measures for Compulsory Compliance’, section 7). It is education that is compulsory, school is not. Only enrolled pupils are subject to Read More …
Having met with the Scottish Government several times over the past year to raise concerns about some local authoritiesâ misrepresentation and misapplication of both education legislation and overarching human rights and data protection laws, the Scottish Home Education Forum is Read More …
