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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 …
In advance of the planned guidance ‘refresh’, we have devised a survey for home educators in Scotland as part of an investigation into local authorities’ home education policies, practices and relationships with our community. It has been previewed and tested Read More …
The Scottish Home Education Forum invited home educating families to share their experiences of the health visiting service in Scotland after observing a steady increase in members’ reporting of concerns about engagements with health visitors, both via direct enquiries and Read More …
Once again, home educators and home education support groups were airbrushed out of ‘evidence’ to the Education & Skills Committee’s Additional Support Needs Inquiry, despite so many children becoming home educated due to schools’ failure to ensure their safety or Read More …
Professor John Raven’s latest paper published last month is well worth reading: Some criminal (if not yet criminalised) misapplications of “science”, logic, and power, illustrated from the field of early childhood education From pages 5/6: “How does it come about Read More …
