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...
Category : Home Education
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...
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...
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...
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...