Bridging payments win for home educators in Dumfries & Galloway

We would like to congratulate the Dumfries and Galloway home education group on persuading local councillors to overturn a previous decision and embrace inclusion by making bridging payments available to eligible home educating families in the area. Local parents had Read More …

Lessons from lockdown: home schooling is not home education

Dumfries and Galloway Council has once again vexed home educators by failing to differentiate between lockdown learning or ‘home schooling’ and elective home education in its latest community bulletin.  And that is without mentioning the glaring typo in the headline…  Read More …

‘Unlawful’ home education policy slammed by advocacy group

Press release issued today by the Scottish Home Education Forum Dumfries and Galloway councillors are being asked to approve policy proposals that breach the human rights of home educated children and their parents and disregard government guidance, according to a Read More …