Monitoring “will do the children themselves a huge injustice”
Writer Esther Jones home educates her three children through an unschooling approach. She writes about their life and about home education and unschooling more widely...
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Personal accounts: home ed and academic success
by Rose Arnold
While academic success should not be the only measure of a successful education it is useful to understand that home education is certainly no barrier...
Rethinking Education: young people speak
by Rose Arnold
Rethinking Education as part of their series of ‘Campfire Conversations’, spoke to a group of young people from different educational backgrounds – some from mainstream...
Children Heard: Thoughts on the pandemic
by Rose Arnold
In amongst the headlines on how children’s lives have been blighted by coronavirus and lockdown there has been a notable lack of children’s voices. Children...
States of Mind: impact of school on mental health
by Rose Arnold
States of Mind, an organisation dedicated to the wellbeing of young people, focuses on understanding and addressing the social causes of young people’s distress and...
Organisation Pupil Power
by Rose Arnold
Student-led movement Pupil Power engages and empowers young people to understand educational policy, how it impacts them and their experience, and to get involved in...
Dr Harriet Pattison on ignorance around home education
by Rose Arnold
Dr Harriet Pattison is amongst those concerned that there will be knee-jerk policy changes around home education founded on misunderstanding and without evidence. Home education...
Psychologist’s expert opinion on home education
by Rose Arnold
Expert opinion on home education from clinical psychologist and author Dr Naomi Fisher Dr Naomi Fisher, PhD, DClinPsy, MACantab (I) Clinical Psychologist I am a...
Home education hearing: UNICEF UK recommendations not in accordance with 2016 UK Supreme Court ‘Named Person’ ruling
by Rose Arnold
The following letter has been sent to the Education Select Committee and will also be sent to UNICEF UK as a complaint. UNICEF UK’s submission...
Impacts of isolation
by Rose Arnold
Isolation booth to school exclusion: We need to find a better way Sarah Martin-Denham, senior lecturer at the University of Sunderland and programme leader for...