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Following a deluge of responses to the Welsh Government’s consultation on its misguided proposals to introduce parent licensing for home educators as part of the forthcoming Education (Wales) Bill, plans for such a scheme have now been officially shelved. In 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 …
By Barbara When it comes to the practice of elective home education, many people have had the wool pulled over their eyes by so called independent expert Graham Badman, whose task earlier this year was to produce policy based evidence so that his Read More …
In an open letter to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Elective Home Education, which was recently established at Westminster to promote better understanding of elective home education, the home education action group AHEd has affirmed its non negotiable commitment to protecting essential Read More …
The UK Government formally declared war on home education in England today with its inclusion in the Queen’s speech of a stated intention to introduce a licensing scheme for parents. It is almost inevitable that any such scheme, if it ever managed to reach Read More …
