Dare to Know

Three Degrees of Freedom has an excellent post on the government's partial approach to the concept of taking the consent of it's ci...

is a reply to the TES article: "Home Education Review sparks battle over lack of regulation."

From the Guardian: "The typical instructional mode of teaching has its place but does not necessarily equip pupils with the skills they...

My hope is that Mr Badman, who actually struck me as someone who might not lightly dismiss the genuine concerns of the citizenry in favour o...

From the TES : "Social workers are calling on local authorities to increase the monitoring of home-educated children as a government re...

Speculation continues to abound in the HE community as to what Mr Badman will recommend as a result of the HE review . Home educators have p...

One of the few laughs that DS and I have been getting out of this review, (and believe me, DS's humour is happily dark as a rule: Me at ...

The DCSF report on the Home Education - Registration and Monitoring Proposals, aka The Badman Review (which closed in October 2009) can be v...

From Freedom for Children to Grow: "This information has been provided by the Review Team: Rationale The independent review of home ed...

... on funding for home educators in Essex . It will be interesting to see how accountable these parents will be expected to be but I would ...

To: Director of Children’s Services Lead Member for Children and Young People January 19, 2009 Dear Colleague Independent Review of ...

We got back from an HE camp late last night and I've just now read all your comments here . Thank you for all of them and thank you als...

Just back from an HE camp. There was so much that was invaluable and I don't mean just the fresh blast of thriving eco-systems. I mean t...

Ok, next plan: in lieu of writing a summary, I am just going to quote you lot from comments , in the hope that this will raise a few of the ...

I've been trying to find a moment to summarise the themes that have arisen in comments here and have failed miserably so far. Apologies...

Further on the sentiment expressed by These Boots in the discussion in comments below , (that many of us are interested in improving the l...

.. .the petition is tomorrow. Please do sign if you haven't already.

...has been provided by an anonymous commentator here, as a result of which, I am now interested to know if Notschool could actually cater ...

Oh honestly, is this really the best the DCSF can do? In the cause of trying to work out how schools should develop in the 21st century ,...

Right at the end of the meeting in Bromsgrove, Mr Badman mentioned something about the problem of shaping education for the 21st century . ...