Home Education Forums

Welcome to the information portal and networking community for home educators who mean business!

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.

 

At Home Education Forums, you can:

 

Home Education News


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

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.

 

Action for Home Education (AHEd) has invited supporters of freedom in education to sign up to its newly published Declaration reaffirming parental responsibility for the upbringing and education of  children "in accordance with lawful rights and natural justice".

Starting out in home ed

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.

 

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Starting out in business

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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Media

Visit our media forum to read the latest news on home-based education and business or to post a journalist’s request.

Professionals

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?

Opinion

Home educators are never short of opinions!

Voice them in our forums

Vote in our latest opinion poll

Support the AHEd Declaration

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Latest from the forums

EDM tabled by Mark Field MP

Early Day Motion EDM 1785 (http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=38985&SESSION=899) HOME EDUCATION AND THE BADMAN REVIEW Tabled...

Forced schooling: how you can help

With thanks to Su for inspiration through substitution. :biggrin1: Forced schooling: how you can help...

Our Letter to the Parliamentary Ombudsman

From the Staffordshire blog (http://maire-staffordshire.blogspot.com/). Our Letter to the Parliamentary Ombudsman...

A message of support from John Taylor Gatto

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Robin Harper MSP and John Taylor Gatto

Image courtesy of McIntosh Photography

“What a magnificent idea the Home Edupreneurs Business Directory and Forums are! In a most  straightforward way, they will add grand value to everyone who uses them – and eventually to the entire community. Three cheers for Home Ed Biz!”

The Home Ed High Street

Shop local on the home ed high street for goods and services from home-edupreneurs and selected small businesses offering discounts.

Home Education Articles

A selection of articles which we hope will be of interest to home educators.

 

Home grown education

Bullying, or why we home educate

Going green

 

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