Tag: registration
‘Registration’ petition: our submission to Committee
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 …
‘Registration’ petition revisited
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 …
The SPICe is not always right: questions over home education briefing
Our attention was recently drawn to this SPICe briefing in respect of Scottish Parliament Petition PE01730 (with 11 signatures), which calls for the ‘registration’ (or, more accurately, ‘licensing’) of children who are electively home educated in Scotland. We will critique Read More …
What if…?
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 …