NO to monitoring
We reject proposals to introduce mandatory registration and monitoring of electively home educated children on the following grounds. Educational We reject the idea that local authorities...
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Ex SENCO teacher Sarah home educates her children
by dan
Sarah taught in primary education for 10 years before leaving to be a full-time parent. For the last four years of her career she was...
An overview of home education (TES)
by dan
This 2003 article by Steven Hastings, published on TES, is a great overview of home education in England. Everything from who’s doing it, legal standing,...
Parent groups campaigning for change
by dan
There are many parents, with children in school, fighting to make the school system better. Rescue our Schools campaign on the many issues facing schools, which...
National Curriculum too narrow and failing generations of children
by dan
The National Curriculum has for many years been criticised for its narrow focus and lack of room for creativity or development of problem solving skills...
Safer children? Safeguarding referrals within educational context
by dan
Research by Professor Devine and Parker investigated the child protection training provided in educational settings and found substantial problems, leading to a culture of over...
Home education and students’ intrinsic motivation to learn
by dan
Dr G Riley 2016: The role of self-determination theory and cognitive evaluation theory in home education This paper by Dr Gina Riley, educational psychologist and...
Systematic review confirms that assessment damages motivation to learn
by dan
University of London’s Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre carried out a ‘systematic review of the impact of summative assessment and tests...
Being ‘known’ didn’t protect the children in the 7 SCRs
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Gill Kilner, long term home educator, activist and blogger on the fallacious assertion that home educated children need to be known by professionals to be...
Rethinking child protection – serious reform needed (research by Devine and Parker)
by dan
There are serious problems with our child protection system, which now involves 5% of all families yearly. We accept this because we think it will...