The Scottish Government’s Home Education Guidance is a refreshingly clear and balanced document that upholds parents’ rights to educate their children at home while ensuring children receive a broad and balanced education that prepares them for adult life. Unlike the proposed legislation in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill for England, the Scottish guidance affirms…
Labour has shut down an attempt to give parents in England a legal right to see what their children are being taught in school. An amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill would have given parents access to teaching materials on request—but it was voted down by 10 to 3. Among those rejecting it…
On 17th December 2024, two killers, Urfan Sharif and Beinash Batool, were given long life sentences: 40 and 30 years respectively. They will surely go down in history as two of the most heinous child abusers in British history. They subjected Sara to unimaginable cruelty, while the officials with the means and powers to protect…
Many of us still hold onto the comforting notion that schools exist primarily to teach our children to read, write, and absorb a few basic facts about the world. We may even take pride in the idea that schools help children navigate friendships and develop the confidence to stand up for themselves and others. But…
ParentPower has written an open letter to the Chief Education Officer of the Church of England outlining our serious concerns with the CofE’s latest anti-bullying guidance for schools, Flourishing for All. To read the letter, download the pdf by clicking here or on the image below:
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill has not received anything like the degree of public scrutiny it warrants, perhaps because it has published shortly before Christmas While the Bill contains some welcome provisions, such as an increased focus on kinship care in the children’s social care system, taken as a whole the Bill represents a…
We previously reported on the Government’s proposed Children’s Wellbeing Bill, which includes measures that could significantly impact the rights of home-educating families in the UK. Today, we delve into the views and attitudes of UK lawmakers on this critical issue. Lord Storey recently introduced a Home Education Registration and Support Bill in the House of…
Parents with children in school had occasion to be heartened by the December 2023 publication of the previous Government’s draft guidance on ‘gender questioning children’ , which made it clear that no teacher or pupil should be compelled to use a child’s ‘preferred pronouns’ in school, where these do not correspond to that individual’s biological…
In a recent report for London-based think tank Civitas, Joanna Williams explores the question Teachers or Parents: Who is responsible for raising the next generation? Against the backdrop of Labour’s ‘Child Health Action Plan’, which promises school-supervised tooth brushing at fully-funded breakfast clubs, Williams argues that the boundaries between parents and schools have become increasingly…
Parent Power recently reported on the Government’s proposed tax on private school fees – a clumsy intervention supposedly intended to provide a more equal education system, which would have dire consequences for small independent schools. We are now pleased to report that a coalition of three Christian schools (Emmanuel School in Derby, Branch Christian School…
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