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Following our two previous posts, The SPICe is not always right: questions over home education briefing (21 September 2019) and ‘Registration’ petition revisited (21 February 2020), the Scottish Home Education Forum has sent a submission to the Petitions Committee, whose members are Read More …
As if we didn’t already know it, Glasgow City Council hates home educators (or ‘home schoolers’ as they like to misterm them) Their response to last year’s Scottish Government discussion paper in anticipation of the home education guidance review – Read More …
Representatives from the Scottish Home Education Forum met with three civil servants from the Scottish Government’s Learning Directorate and Children & Families (GIRFEC) Directorate on 8 August. The forum administrator had contacted the Learning Directorate in May to raise a Read More …
The Scottish Consumer Council has published its response to the Scottish Executive consultation on home education. A Review of the Scottish Executive Document: Guidance on the Circumstances in Which Parents May Choose to Educate their Children at Home Our first Read More …
Home educators have reacted angrily to comments made by Highland councillors who have inferred a direct link between home-based educators and ‘dysfunctional families’. [Report in Press and Journal, 27 January, ‘Concern over amount (sic) of children taught at home’] In Read More …
