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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 …
We have posted previously about this 11-signature Scottish Parliament petition calling for the registration (or ‘licensing’) of home educated children, in particular highlighting our concerns over omissions and inaccuracies in the accompanying SPICe briefing. It is our intention – time Read More …
Following the meeting of the Education and Skills Committee on 27 November 2019, the Convener wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills for an update as to when the suite of products referred to in a previous letter in Read More …
The Education and Skills Committee revisited our joint petition on 27 November 2019. Excerpt from the Official Report: Getting It Right For Every Child Policy (Human Rights) (PE1692) The Convener: Agenda item 3 is consideration of PE1692 by Lesley Scott Read More …
The Scottish Parliament’s Education & Skills Committee is due to reconsider petition PEO1692 for an independent public inquiry into the human rights impact of GIRFEC policy in the coming weeks. In order to inform the committee’s further deliberations, joint petitioners Read More …
