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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As Balls, Badman, Birmingham Council and the BBC shamefully continue to breach the bounds of decency in the wake of Khyra Ishaq’s tragic death by cynically seeeking to shift the blame from serial failures on the part of social services on to home education (because the child had stopped going to school when she was already giving profound cause for concern), we thought it was time to pronounce our own verdict: professionals cannot be trusted.
Following publication today of a censorious report by a cross party group of MPs which strongly urges the government to learn lessons from its "unfortunate" handling of the elective home education review in England, Action for Home Education (AHEd) has reiterated its condemnation of Graham Badman's controversial proposals for the licensing of law abiding parents.
Flaws i
n the UK Government’s proposals on home based parenting must be tackled, concludes the Children, Schools and Families Committee in a report published today. It urges the Government to learn lessons from the Balls up it has made in relation to elective home based parenting in England and pushes for more precise monitoring of parents by local authorities.
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?
Home educators are hardened campaigners!
Petition No10 to scrap the Badman Report
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Support the AHEd Declaration
Check out the Best of the Blogs
Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7414346/Female-deputy-head-had-sex-with-pupil-in-British-Library-toilets.html) ...
Evening Standard (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23814042-rise-in-number-of-state-schools-judged-to-be-inadequate.do) ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7411453/Tesco-director-British-school-leavers-cant-read-or-write-and-have-attitude-problems.html ...
Robin Harper MSP and John Taylor Gatto
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A selection of articles which we hope will be of interest to home educators.
Bullying, or why we home educate
