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A Herefordshire parent with many years of experience home educating her older children is being prosecuted for taking her nine-year-old daughter on a backpacking ‘holiday of a lifetime’ during term time. Ironically, had she exercised her parental right to deregister Read More …
It looks like the English may have a few lessons to teach the Welsh and the Scots when it comes to law abiding minorities and elective home education. Oh how we yawned when they announced an inquiry by Westminster’s Education Read More …
Some encouraging news from Graham Stuart MP has been reported on our forums: “I’m meeting ministers next week to discuss home education and will be asking for urgent action to remind LAs of their actual duties (and powers). Whatever form that takes (and assuming Read More …
Home educators are reporting an increase in ultra vires activity among English local authorities whose elective home education guidelines have been exposed as inaccurate and misleading. Councils recently outed on our community forums include Barnsley, East Sussex and a Wirral, Knowlsey and Warrington combo calling itself the Elective Read More …
By Neil T It was only because of a casual remark to a home educator in England by a local education authority official that the existence of a Statutory Instrument (SI) taking from parents their right to immediate deregistration from Read More …