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Errors have been spotted in Scottish Government guidance Included, engaged and involved part 1: promoting and managing school attendance (‘Measures for Compulsory Compliance’, section 7). It is education that is compulsory, school is not. Only enrolled pupils are subject to Read More …
Edited version published in the Scottish Sunday Express, 9 July 2017. This parent turned to home education when her child’s needs were not met in school and complaints went unaddressed. Council’s ‘creepy’ spies snoop on Facebook and pass on pupil’s Read More …
Further to our recent post, Deregister or be damned, in which we highlighted the plight of former home educator Jackie Turner, who is being prosecuted for taking her nine-year-old daughter, Hazel, out of school for this three-week backpacking trip, we are Read More …
A Herefordshire parent with many years of experience home educating her older children is being prosecuted for taking her nine-year-old daughter on a backpacking ‘holiday of a lifetime’ during term time. Ironically, had she exercised her parental right to deregister Read More …
