Sunderland - Unregistered children are CME

[Elaine Kirk]

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Sunderland Children missing from education

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Approved education activity includes provisions such as a maintained school or independent (private) school, city academy, alternative curriculum provision, pupil referral unit and elective home education and registered with the local authority.
How can children and young people go 'missing from education'?
There are a number of recognised points where children or young people can go missing from education. These include:
Failure to start appropriate provision at 'reception' age and therefore never entering the educational system
After any form of exclusion from education
Failure to complete the transition from primary to secondary school
Delays in applying for a new school when a family arrive in the city
Delays in applying for a new school when a child leaves an independent (private) school
Child removed from school by family who leave the area with no forwarding address
Child removed and not registered as "home educated"

[Loubeeloo]

So basically the Badman Bill was thrown out but the very thing we were worried it would lead to was already being introduced via CME... registration & licensing!... If you're not registered & therefore 'licensed' ( been granted permission because you've done as they want & 'registered' with the LA), then you're a criminal until you become so, via 'school or otherwise'!

tbh I really can't see any flaw in Sunderlands reasoning here, based upon the CME guidance, they're just taking 'appropriate measures' to ensure there's no child who escapes their attention ... & now some fools want to lay more ammunition at the feet of the LAs in the form of 'guidelines' so they can twist those terms to suit their agenda! tsk!

I found the points made here about travellers interesting

The travellers' community is often brought in as a reason for employing CME Guidance. Surely we must understand that those children are missing education?

I *have* had cause to talk to several ppl who are part of this community about home education (I was interested to know why so many of them, being so against 'the system' still sent their children to school)... some of the opinions expressed were that travellers are often too scared to EHE because they already have so much negative attention from the ptb. Therefore they will register their children at the nearest school out of fear of exactly the attitude displayed by the above quoted LA employee.

Mieke makes the point that travellers "have as much right to raise and educate their children according to their own customs and values as you and I have."... but this 'right' has been curtailed thru many years of bad press which paints that community as 'under-educated' & a parallel society (& we know how that doesn't fit in with the BIG agenda)... any one who choses to take to the road as a lifestyle or who is born into that way, knows that unless they keep on moving & keep their heads down (& their kids un-registered from birth)... or alternatively compromise their beliefs & register their kids with the very system they are opposed to, then they run the risk of being targeted as ignorant or neglectful parents.

[Earthtracer]

Dear people, may I politely point out thet 'Traveller' requires a capital 'T' - as indeed does Gypsy.

[Ali P]

Originally Posted by Earthtracer

Dear people, may I politely point out thet 'Traveller' requires a capital 'T' - as indeed does Gypsy.

And Gypsy Travellers are a protected minority, home educating or not - unlike travellers with a small T.

[Polly]

It would seem that CME and registration/tracking go back a lot further than Badman



http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/83...er3March05.pdf

Thinking that moving to Russia might be an attractive option these days.

This gives more up to date info on how it works

http://wales.gov.uk/docs/dcells/publ...transferen.pdf

and this is really comprehensive describing all the ways children can be lost

http://www.lutonlscb.org/index.php?o...l-publications

I just LOVE this bit

Destination Unknown – Low Risk

* Place accessed at a Luton school
* Place accessed at Out of Borough School
* Place accessed at other suitable educational provision
* Elective home education started and monitored by Home Education Officer
* Child is not statutory school age

Destination Unknown seems to be a misnomer - all of the above are known destinations

[Loubeeloo]

Gypsy Travellers are a protected minority

only considered an 'ethnic' minority if they are of Roma or Irish heritage... many aren't.

I haven't ever asked my friends if they feel like a 'protected minority' but I can guess that their answer might be that they feel quite the opposite of protected!

The parents I know do feel as though they are under pressure to conform to the expectations of the LA to register at schools or 'out of school' units as soon as possible when changing location for fear of being reported for neglecting their duty to provide an education & because Travellers (thanks for the correction Earthtracer) are a target group for improvement in 'educational attainment' it's amazing just how quickly the local authority pick up on new site dwellers.

[LovingHomeEd]

The frustrating thing is once they are in the system no-one cares whether they are happy, thriving, safe from abuse or reaching their full potential. Do it yourself at home, and you must be doing something you shouldn't be.