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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In January 2009, the UK Government tasked former science teacher Graham Badman to assess whether the current system of "supporting and monitoring home education" in England was effective. His subsequent report was published on 11 June.
HMRC staff are routinely failing to follow relevant guidance when dealing with child benefit claims in respect of young people aged 16 and over who are continuing in home education, according to concerned parents and support organisations.
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 Ali's home ed biz background in Home education: a springboard to enterprise
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Early Day Motion EDM 1785 (http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=38985&SESSION=899) HOME EDUCATION AND THE BADMAN REVIEW Tabled...
With thanks to Su for inspiration through substitution. :biggrin1: Forced schooling: how you can help...
From the Staffordshire blog (http://maire-staffordshire.blogspot.com/). Our Letter to the Parliamentary Ombudsman...
Robin Harper MSP and John Taylor Gatto
Image courtesy of McIntosh Photography
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A selection of articles which we hope will be of interest to home educators.
Bullying, or why we home educate
