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By Barbara What if registration and monitoring are inevitable, as some “negotiators” would have us believe? Surely that sentiment can only be expressed by someone who has given up, or who, for some other reason, is choosing not to fight Read More …
A response to the DCSF CON-sultation on proposals for the registration and monitoring of law abiding home educating families. 1 Do you agree that these proposals strike the right balance between the rights of parents to home educate and the rights 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 …
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 …
Reaction has been both swift and hostile to a newly published document which purports to come from Education Otherwise and which contains a series of “recommendations” on the future of home education in England. Although it bears the national charity’s Read More …
