Welsh Government shelves parent licensing plans

Following a deluge of responses to the Welsh Government’s consultation on its misguided proposals to introduce parent licensing for home educators as part of the forthcoming Education (Wales) Bill, plans for such a scheme have now been officially shelved. In Read More …

Supporting children and families? Aye, that’ll be right!

Under the dubious headline of Supporting children and families, Scottish Minister for Children and Young People, Aileen Campbell, has dutifully launched a consultation on the Scottish Government’s forthcoming Children and Young People Bill. She’s from the government and is here to help, don’t Read More …

A ‘Just Say No’ response from home educators

A response to the DCSF CON-sultation on proposals for the registration and monitoring of law abiding home educating families. 1 Do you agree that these proposals strike the right balance between the rights of parents to home educate and the rights Read More …