Tales from a small country: Education, integrated services and universal surveillance

By Sheila Struthers (first published on the SubRosa blog, 30 November 2010) Tales from a small country: Education, integrated services and universal surveillance       “My opinion is this: Initially ACfE was deliberately kept liquid, fluid and vague. To hide its Read More …

AHEd challenges Gove to reverse “mission creep”

Action for Home Education (AHEd) has today written to the Education Secretary, Michael Gove MP, alerting him to the contradictions inherent within legislation relating to Children Missing Education (CME) and seeking his assurances that appropriate action will be taken by Read More …

CRAM: the Met helps with home educators’ enquiries

In the wake of revelations that “home educated”, “disability” and “privately fostered” are listed as risk factors by the Metropolitan Police Service in its operational policy known as CRAM (Child Risk Assessment Matrix), alongside “co-sleeping”, “substance abuse”, “sexualised behaviour” and various other Read More …

Lies and deceit infect the Met? Or were the CRAM creators conned?

A member of our community forums has brought to our attention a policy known as CRAM (Child Assessment Risk Matrix) which was developed by the Metropolitan Police Service in the wake of the Baby P case. Naturally, they were aided and abetted Read More …