@ohrainydays
It is clear you are not making any effort to understand. In fact it’s tempting to believe you are putting effort into deliberately misunderstanding.
As previously explained some LA’s already attempt to deceive their Home Ed community. Pretending that they have the right to:
Enter your home. (Not even just that but without an appointment and to bring others with them)
Monitor your provision.
Speak to your children.
Teach what they tell you to teach, where and how.
Tell you you can’t be providing a suitable education unless a third party such as a tutor writes a report validating your teaching.
To know who the other Home Educators are you interact with.
See your and your children’s medical histories.
All of the above being unlawful. In pursuit of this if you don’t comply some LA’s will maliciously use Social Services, the Police, freeze Child Benefits and heck even someone who claims they showed up to someone’s workplace to try and interview them. Meanwhile spreading misinformation and character assassinating their Home Educators to the point that 80% of the time we are depicted in the media it is with a negative slant.
This is the relationship some LA’s have with their communities. They are not there to help HE’ers or their kids. They are there to try and force kids back into school.
A register will only identify parents who have never sent kids to school who HE for philosophical reasons and parents who have moved LA but not alerted the new LA (which they don’t have to do). In both of these cases it will still be voluntary. If you don’t sign up to a mandatory register you will likely just be fined and then have to face the same risk of harassment as before. Some LA’s will treat you no better for volunteering for a register or for getting discovered. Therefore it will do nothing to help protect any children whose parents are under the radar who are using ‘HE’ to cover abuse or neglect.
If we are defensive and suspicious it is because we have been successfully ‘othered’ from society. No one believes the systemic abuse some Home Educators receive from the very state that’s supposed to be there to support them. Those same arms of the state will not countenance having to actually help HE’ers in any fashion because it costs money. Every kid they force back to school costs them a little less in trying to oversee HE and saves them money. It is not about safeguarding or support for the community it is about a tool to help create cost savings.
Most schooled children’s parents know that schools play a safeguarding role and watch their kids for signs of neglect or abuse. Most parents don’t mind because they get something from the service, an education for their kids, free childcare, a community etc. Would school kids parents be happy to do resent their kids for inspection by teachers etc to examine them for abuse by the parents in exchange for nothing? I think they would feel annoyed and insulted, like many HE’ers feel.