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The Schools Bill is a wide-ranging bill covering a variety of subjects. It is a government bill which began its passage in the House of Lords in May and is now finishing its progress in that House. It will likely be debated in the House of Commons during the autumn. Article by Family Education Trust…
THIS is a paradox: A mother goes out to work and hands over her children to somebody she does not know for their education and most of their care, and nobody questions the reasonableness of that decision. If that mother chooses to nurture her own children in her own home, she is regarded with suspicion….
This Authoritarian Government’s Education Bill Will Allow Local Authorities to Force Home Educated Children to Attend Their Own Failing Schools Who is responsible for your child’s education? It may well surprise you to learn that if you are a parent in the U.K. today then it is legally your responsibility to ensure that your child…
Home educating families and others that focus on the development of children are horrified at the first reading of the Schools Bill, introduced in the House of Lords on 11 May 2022. Education Otherwise say that the Bill will destroy the very basis of home education: provision of an individualised education to a child,…
PARENTS in Britain have historically decided the method and manner of their child’s education; it has been in the child’s best interests for parents to make primary decisions about their needs. This freedom has enabled many parents to home educate, believing that the benefits to doing so would outweigh the significant financial, career and social sacrifices they’d make to facilitate it. Research shows that home-educated children often academically…
Calling all parents and teachers. Want to find teaching resources you can trust? Look no further! Relationships Matter – Lovewise has just released new resources for use in primary school Relationships Education! ‘Relationships Matter’ fulfils the Government’s Statutory Guidance for this new subject in the basic curriculum in primary schools in England. This is a…
Parents and Education Our surrounding culture is changing and the current health crisis is a window of opportunity to reflect on parental responsibilities towards the education or their children. Forty years ago, my wife and I realised that we should take responsibility for the education of our six daughters, then ranging from six to fourteen…
The Positive Choice to Home School — What Lockdown Has Taught Me. Like most parents, I’ve always wanted my children to do well with their education. I have always taken great interest in my children’s development. Each evening I’ve discussed with my children what they’ve learned at school that day, and asked their teachers at…
Stay-at-Home Ideas for Families Who would have thought, four months ago, that so many of us would be spending so much time at home? For some this has been a time of isolation and loneliness, for others a welcome break from the busyness of everyday life. Homeschooling is no longer a choice made by the…
Home Educating Parents Sidelined! On 10th April 2018, the Department for Education (DfE) published significant new draft Guidance for Home Education in England. This all seemed very reasonable, with the guidance subject to a public consultation ending on 2nd July: https://consult.education.gov.uk/school-frameworks/home-education-call-for-evidence-and-revised-dfe-a/ However, there was one major omission in the Government’s approach to this matter…
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