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Baroness Walmsley in a recent debate in the House of Lords raised a number of pertinent points with regard to the privacy of children and f...

As if the nerves weren't frayed enough already, from the DCSF: "As you know the consultation on home education guidelines closed on...

Further on the 2006 DfES consultation on a proposal to provide further guidance as to what constitutes full time education in independent s...

A truancy officer in Gloucestershire returned a home educated child to her house. Full facts unknown at this point, but the debate in the c...

From the Scottish Edition of the Times Educational Supplement , a piece that deserves to be copied in full, for the record: " Parents d...

Returning, (see post below) to the matter of getting the killer message across, ie: that the state must avoid appropriating responsibility f...

Probably as a result of the recent DCSF's Day of Debate , and yet more articles from Private Eye on the related subject of citizens'...

From the BBC : " Nearly a quarter of England's state secondary schools let down their pupils, an education minister has said "...

...from Six Home Ed in Kent .

Bev at Cruel at School has been doing great work recently: Channel 4 , GMTV, and articles in her local press. Bev decided to home educate ...

Take Cheshire County Council by way of an example. Cheshire CC has issued a press release which comes with the tagline: "Cheshire Call...

I can't pretend that there is any hope of any science to substantiate the idea that attachment parenting is vastly superior to other for...

So here (finally), is the press release re the DSCF's "day of debate to shape our children's future". Of course if you ar...

"Channel 4 News Online reveals that the number of children being schooled at home has risen by more than 60% in the past 5 years. More ...

According to Peter Oborne, it is much less so than of old. He writes in the Spectator this week: "...the (new) Political Class is deepl...

..."100% better" (than school). From 47 mins into this broadcast, (after the Django Rheinhardt-style music) - a piece from Trave...

Via HEOS , Isabel Lynam of Homeschooling Revolution writes about homeschooling for the Ludwig Von Mises Institute

...in the US , at least. The Belgians seem to be getting the point too. Again via HE&OS .

...is rising , despite the new initiative to identify children missing from education, and despite the effort that goes into picking abscon...