“The decision to home educate was the best decision we have made”
Home educating parent Kirsty reflecting on the journey of home education and on her now happy daughter This photo is such a special one to...
Author : Rose Arnold
Elective home education briefing
by Rose Arnold
Briefing for MPs and organisations providing overview of the relevant legislation, principles and issues at stake around elective home education and the recommendations of the...
Monitoring “will do the children themselves a huge injustice”
by Rose Arnold
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...
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...