Dare to Know

For starters, read Ann's blog post which gives the history and context for the current consultation on elective home education guideli...

is the truly truly terrifying title to a post at ARCH Blog . Whilst we had no illusions as to the accessibility of very private information ...

Here's the final letter from Gloucestershire home educators to Beverley Hughes MP (Minister of State for Children, Young People and Fam...

An important issue was raised in comments below, though exhaustion prevented me from pursuing the point at the time. The issue: should those...

For more development on the them of why LAs should be very careful about demanding right of access to home educators, see Gill's post he...

The ContactPoint regulations slipped through the House of Lords on Wednesday 18th, despite resistance from a number of sources, including AR...

The minutes of the meeting between Gloucestershire home educators and the Local Authority are yet to be networked, but we have it from a rel...

And this shows that the countries which have the lowest number of hours in the classroom - Finland, Norway, Sweden, South Korea and Denmark...

Thanks for the argument about the wisdom or otherwise of responding to the consultation in the comments section below. It was perhaps long o...

That is nearly 100 responses in 5 days. Fantastic....can we keep the momentum going?

...to the consultation : there is actually a box specifically for home educated young people in the response form. The DCSF are seeking thei...

Are you known to your LA? If so, have you received notification of the consultation on EHE guidelines? Apparently, you should have done,...

Annette is on Radio Sheffield. Great stuff. You can catch the recording here with transcript below. (AT: you're a bit of a speed talker...

Pete has made life easy for home educators who have yet to respond to the consultation on guidelines for EHE from the newly named Departmen...

There are now reportedly 144 responses in for the Guidelines consultation , which means the total is up by by 60 since the recent drive to g...

Dear Five Live Listener, Thanks for emailing us after the discussion we had between Tony Mooney and Fiona Nicholson on home education on th...

...to the Consultation on Elective Home Education Guidelines (Thanks, DD for all of this.) Have high-lighted some pointed bits in blue. 1. ...

Copied: - - - - - "I am formally requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and I would like this information to ...

Please note that I originally failed to include the more frightening of the two Freedom of Information files in this post. The omitted fil...

"Learning shouldn't just take place in the classroom - it takes place all the time, in the world around us," said Mr Knight.