The Schools’ Bill has been introduced and had its first reading in the House of Lords. Home educating families and organisations that have an interest in the development of children are horrified by its content. Home educating families have been repeatedly assured that this Bill would go no further than mandatory registration of home educated […]
Home Educating Families’ Views of Local Authority Requests for Samples of Children’s Work
Increasingly, local authority staff in some areas are seeking samples of children’s work from home educating parents. A survey of 2,217 home educating parents finds that the seeking of samples of a child’s work is adding to the increasing divide between home educating families and their authorities. It is without doubt that public bodies need […]
Deregistration: Schools and local authorities failing to act lawfully
Short blurb: The Centre for Personalised Education report on parents’ experiences of deregistering their child from school demonstrates a clear divide between legal requirements and actions of schools and local authorities in practice. Parents who declined a m,meeting with the school had their deregistration unlawfully refused in a third of cases. Click Here For The […]
‘Justification’ of mandatory registration: ‘Too many home educated children!
The decision to establish a register for home educated children was manifestly made prior to consultation and confirmed despite the majority of consultees objecting to the proposal. It is interesting to note that one of the principal reasons cited for a register is the belief that the number of home educated children is on the […]
Home-School Learning Resources by Christinea Donnelly
‘Home-School Learning Resources’ is the book that most parents who home educated up until recent years wished that they had access to. Richly filled with information about hundreds of resources that are available to home educating families, it certainly fills a niche. The question that arises however, is ‘why would a parent want this book?’ […]
Home Education Trends: Post Lockdown
Following publication of our report ‘Home Education: The Covid Effect’, on trends in home education, this report examines continuing trends in parental choice to home educate their children and how Covid 19 arrangements have continued to affect those choices. There is increasing positive narrative around home education with current indications suggesting a shift away from […]
Goodred v Portsmouth City Council: Questions and Answers
Members of Education Otherwise have asked for information to help them to understand the judgment in the Judicial Review against Portsmouth City Council. The legal team acting for the parents has kindly provided the following: Click Here For The Full Article […]
Home education: a different but equal choice
As a parent I am surprised at the lack of information freely available toparents on the options for their child’s education and that parents need to search for this information themselves. We have been taught that when our child reaches compulsory school age they are supposed to go to school. This is why, when seven […]
Survey reveals that school not COVID is a major cause of children’s mental health issues in 2021.
A very informative and useful report which confirms factors that Education Otherwise’ research identifies: We are only too aware that ‘school itself appears a major contributor to children’s poor mental health and that there is an urgent need to address this.’ This supports the need for Government and policy makers to actively support alternative forms […]
Education Otherwise calls for mandatory children’s services checks on all school children during holiday periods and weekends.
Of course that gets attention, because the idea quite rightly raises outrage. We are outraged and so should you be. Remember: ‘First they came for the home educators and you did not speak out because you were not a home educator. Then they came for you—and there was no one left to speak for you.’ […]
