Home Education Heretic

Peter Williams has been explaining to readers here how letting in an official from the local authority can create legal problems at a later ...

Today’s post will not be the carefully reasoned and meticulously researched observations on British home education that readers are used ...

As some readers may be aware, there has recently been a consultation about revising the statutory guidance on Children Missing from Educ...

I have been musing today on the disadvantages for home educated children, particularly the older ones, whose parents refuse to have any ...

Most political, religious and social movements have their heroes and martyrs; people who stood up for what they believed in, no matter what ...

A couple of days ago, somebody asked here for advice on frustrating the best efforts of her local authority to ensure that all the children ...

One of the recommendations in Graham Badman's report which irritated home educating parents was that when their children were deregister...

One of the great bones of contention between local authorities and the home educating parents who live in their areas, is the extent to whic...

Like most parents, I have always seen it as part of my duty not only to protect my child from harm, but also from worry and anxiety, at leas...

Those parents who choose not to send their children to school often, like the present writer, neither need nor want any support from their l...