SHEF submission to Commons Home Education Inquiry

As noted in our previous post, ‘Independent’ Commons Committee Chair accused of breaking parliamentary rules, we had to delay sharing our written evidence to the Commons Education Committee’s Home Education Inquiry until it had been accepted and published on the Read More …

Home Education Inquiry (England): pre-emption and doublespeak

It was a case of one against three witnesses (and the entire committee) when Jane Lowe of HEAS gave evidence to the Inquiry on 24 November. Watch the session or read the transcripts: Formal meeting (oral evidence session): Home Education  Read More …

‘Independent’ Commons Committee Chair accused of breaking parliamentary rules

We are grateful to Protecting Home Education Wales (PHEW) for articulating in this blog post the shock and deep disappointment of home educators across the UK at the ‘performance’ on BBC Radio 4 of the supposedly ‘independent’ Chair of the Read More …

Persecution of a minority group and abuse of public funds

Outraged families and support organisations flood the DCFS with 2000+ consultation responses to the elective home education review The UK Government’s review of elective home education, which was announced in January in a blaze of scurrilous spin stating that home Read More …