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After a painfully long period of horse trading in the wake of the hung parliament delivered by the UK electorate, we finally have a new government at Westminster. Despite a significant swing to the Tories – except in Scotland, which Read More …
Ed Balls’s plans for home educators in England are all washed up thanks to unrelenting pressure from the Tories and Lib Dems during the dying days of the UK Parliament in the period known as wash-up when deals are struck Read More …
Responses to the government’s consultation on registration and monitoring proposals for home educating families in England now look certain to exceed 5000 in number by tonight’s deadline. It can also be confidently assumed that the vast majority of these will have articulated Read More …
Carolyne Willow’s opinion piece in the Guardian, in which she criticises the Badman home education proposals as being unhelpful for children, has attracted a wide range of readers’ comments. While some commentators clearly see his DCSF commissioned report for what it is Read More …
In January 2009, the UK Government tasked former science teacher Graham Badman to assess whether the current system of “supporting and monitoring home education” in England was effective. His subsequent report was published on 11 June. Despite being described by the DCSF Read More …
