Home education FAQs
Frequently asked questions about elective home education Are parents qualified to teach children? Home education is not the same as school. Some parents do choose...
Category : About Home Education
Survey: home educators’ experience with local authorities (England)
by Rose Arnold
Survey: home educator’s experiences with local authorities Liverpool Hope University senior lecturer in childhood studies Dr Harriet Pattison, author of Rethinking Learning to Read, and...
Socialisation and visibility of home educated children
by Rose Arnold
Researcher Jennifer Alburey, who has a professional background in law and is a member of the home educating community in England, carried out qualitative research...
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...
Open letter to the Education Select Committee
by Rose Arnold
The following letter was sent on 17 December 2020 to the Chair of the Education Select Committee Mr Robert Halfon MP, to the Clerk, to...
Bibliography – Home Education UK
by Rose Arnold
Home Education in the UK: A Bibliography (2009 – 2019) Compiled by Rahel Berman This is a comprehensive bibliography of academic publications regarding home education...
NO to monitoring
by dan
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...
Concerns about home education are “rooted in class and ethnicity”
by Rose Arnold
Research from University of Birmingham highlights how concerns about home educators are often based on their class or ethnicity. Muslim home educators are one group...
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,...