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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 …
The Scottish Consumer Council has published its response to the Scottish Executive consultation on home education. A Review of the Scottish Executive Document: Guidance on the Circumstances in Which Parents May Choose to Educate their Children at Home Our first Read More …
Home educators have reacted angrily to comments made by Highland councillors who have inferred a direct link between home-based educators and ‘dysfunctional families’. [Report in Press and Journal, 27 January, ‘Concern over amount (sic) of children taught at home’] In 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 …
