Estimating child abuse can overload social workers and put pressure on families
A report ‘Estimating child abuse numbers can overload social workers and put more pressure on families’ by Dr Devine and Mr Parker critiques the way...
Category : Home Education
A Review of Child Protection – recommendations (Munro 2011)
by dan
In 2010 the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove commissioned Professor Eileen Munro to review child protection in England. The following passages are from...
Concerns around home education rooted in class and ethnicity (Birmingham Uni)
by dan
There are different narratives around home education for different families Concerns around home education are rooted in racism and perceptions of class says Professor Kalwant...
Dylan, 13, home ed for one year
by dan
Lesley, Dylan’s mum, allowed him to leave school a year ago and has been home educating him. He had been told he was ‘slow’ but...
Ex-teacher: schools failing students, as well as my daughter
by dan
Arwen is one of a large number of ex-teachers who decided to home educate their child. She taught for 18 years and found seeing what...
Dear home educators
by dan
This website is not for you, as such. It isn’t about home education, nor how to do it. It is mostly missing the resources you...
Rose: my five-year old daughter is not going to school
by dan
Rose has always looked after her daughter at home, combined with doing projects around naps and other bits of time. Her daughter is five and...
Dan Rubin – home educated photographer and designer
by dan
Dan was born and educated in the States by his British mother. An influential photographer he is now based in London, although his work takes...
Home education and the safeguarding myth
by dan
Wendy Charles-Warner examines the facts behind the descriptions of home educated children as ‘invisible and isolated’ and a safeguarding risk and finds that actually home...