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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With new Bills about to be introduced in both Wales and Scotland which will have the effect, if enacted, of legislating parents out of their children's lives, these are very worrying times for all families. Such a profound shift of responsibility for the education and welfare of children from parents to the state is one that evokes sinister reminders of Nazi Germany.
A dedicated new action group has been set up to co-ordinate responses to legislative proposals by the Welsh Ass Government, which, if enacted, would effectively usurp parents' responsibility for education by imposing a regulatory regime on a long established and protected parental function in breach of the ECHR.
Under the dubious headline of Supporting children and families, Scottish Minister for Children and Young People, Aileen Campbell, has dutifully launched a consultation on the Scottish Government's forthcoming Children and Young People Bill. She's from the government and is here to help, don't you know?
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
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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
