Independent, individual and unaffiliated home educators coming together for a common cause.

On 19th January 2009 the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) launched a Review of Home Education and a short online consultation. This questionnaire includes unsubstantiated accusations that home educators are potential child abusers, and infers that Elective Home Education should be overseen by the very authorities that have caused harm to many families, causing them to reject the State school system.

Many parents have withdrawn their children from school because of the school's and Local Authority's inability to provide a suitable education for their child, or to stop physical and psychological abuse occurring. Other parents decide to keep their children out of the school system because they see it failing to meet the needs of those in its care and know that they can do a better job themselves. The DCSF wishes to give the very bodies that have failed so many children the right to interrogate, influence and even veto the education of children in the home. These authorities meanwhile have consistently shown themselves ignorant of the law relating to Elective Home Education, and of its philosophies and practice.

It is the legal right of every parent to educate their child themselves. An estimated 55,000 children in England are so educated.

It is the legal right of every child to receive a suitable education. As 1 in 6 children leave school unable to read, write or add up, schools arguably do not always provide this.

The DCSF has taken its gloves off and is once more trying to bring about the end of Home Education as we know it. If any other minority group were treated the way we have been there would be uproar. Enough is enough, let's do something about it!
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Independent, individual and unaffiliated home educators coming together for a common cause.

On 19th January 2009 the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) launched a Review of Home Education and a short online consultation. This questionnaire includes unsubstantiated accusations that home educators are potential child abusers, and infers that Elective Home Education should be overseen by the very authorities that have caused harm to many families, causing them to reject the... (read more)