Our mission is to connect families whose children are educated outside school, encourage the pooling of resources, experience and expertise, nurture home-edupreneurship and facilitate preferential trading between members to benefit the home education community and economy.
Whether you are a parent just thinking about educating without schooling, a new or established home educator, a professional who comes into contact with home-based educators, or even if you are just curious about home education and how it works, we hope you will find our site of interest.
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Ofsted has called for the introduction of a Nazi inspired law in England in a report on home education published today, apparently in defiance of a moratorium instituted by the new coalition government on the work of all government quangos in the children and young people's sector.
After a pa
infully long period of horse trading in the wake of the hung parliament delivered by the UK electorate, we finally have a new government at Westminster. Despite a significant swing to the Tories - except in Scotland, which inexplicably stayed in a 2005 political time warp - they did not achieve a majority, and the public waited, and waited, and waited, for a deal, which eventually produced a Conservative Lib Dem coalition.
Ed Balls’s plans for home educators in England are all washed up for now thanks to unrelenting pressure from the Tories and Lib Dems during the dying days of the UK Parliament in the period known as wash-up when deals are struck by the government to get important pieces of legislation through prior to dissolution.
Home education can seem a daunting prospect when all you have ever known is schooling, so we hope some personal accounts of educating children outside the school system might help soothe the inevitable newbie nerves!
Read about Karen's experience of home educating a child with special needs.
Ronnie shares aspects of his family's first 18 months of home education.
Many home educators and home educated young people are already in business or thinking of working for themselves. As naturally resourceful and determined individuals who are never inclined to give up easily, they are ideally suited to the world of business.
Read about home-edupreneur Pauline's experience of Mixing enterprise and education
Read about Ali's home ed biz background in Home education: a springboard to enterprise
Visit our media forum to read the latest news on home-based education and business or to post a journalist’s request.
If you have a professional interest in home-based education, why not join our dedicated professionals’ forum and meet our team of experienced home educators?
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A selection of articles which we hope will be of interest to home educators.
Bullying, or why we home educate
