Local Authority (LA) home education officers will often ask home educating parents to meet with them, they might ask for a phone call or perhaps copies of work. Home educating parents can be confused about whether or not they should meet, or how to provide information. Quite often, this confusion arises from the parent’s exposure […]
‘The Cool is Best Method’ is a self help book for families, parents and teachers which aims to improve relationships by providing tools to those struggling to manage their emotions. The book uses the ‘six skills of emotional intelligence’, a recognised psychological approach for improving mental and emotional health. For some families, this will hit […]
Education Otherwise’s ‘trends’ series of reports maps numbers of home educating children and the reasons why parents across England and Wales choose to home educate their children; the 2024 issue separates England and Wales. This issue is for England. Home educating families are changing and those changes are reflected primarily in those choosing to home […]
Parents home educating in Wales have traditionally reported their local authorities to be supportive and positive. Relationships have been mutually respectful for many years, in most areas, whilst complaints made to Education Otherwise and support groups about local authority officer practice in Wales have been significantly fewer per capita than in England. However, parents and […]
Careers Education for Home-Educated Students with SEND The author of this article, Eloise Barnett, is a teacher and parent of an autistic/ADHD teenager who has been unable to attend school for three years, she is also the Director for SEND at ‘Spark Careers’. Parents and carers who have ‘chosen’ to educate their children at home, […]
What is the Integrative Education Programme? The Integrative Education (IE) Programme allows young people to engage directly with their learning. It provides the opportunity to choose something the young person is interested in or passionate about and to build an independent project around their choice which is flexibly assessed, supported throughout by a tutor and […]
What is ‘Kit’ The ‘kit’ award is based on an education officer we call ‘Kit’, because we believe that every education officer who comes into contact with home educating parents should be like Kit. Kit could be any man or woman in the role, but what makes Kit stand out, is that home educating families […]
Thames sixth form for home educated young people At Thames, we offer full support to those who come to us from home education, online learning or non-traditional settings. Changing schools or going to university can be daunting even when you’re familiar with a typical school environment, even more so when you’re not. Among […]
The older amongst us will remember how the Harrison family’s battle against their local authority for the right to home educate their children became a cause célèbre in the 1970s and introduced many people in the UK to the concept that education could take place otherwise than at school. As one of the founder members […]
Education Otherwise is currently in discussion with legal counsel in respect of the new Welsh guidance to ascertain whether this can be challenged, and how best to proceed. We will shortly launch a fundraiser to support the campaign, and will update once we have further information. […]
