Impulsive Decision to home educate both DC

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We have taken this decision recently as space has not been allocated to our DC after moving house in the local area and the LA advised that DC have to travel to their old school. The journey is 'unreasonable' and the school not great either.
DS has a tutor for his 11+ which he will sit next week, and I am looking currently to find a tutor for DD but have not found yet. He made a big progress with the tutor who prepared her DC for a grammar school with only 2 days per week (x 2 hours) and allocated homework.

Where do I start to home educate DC and prove the LA that this method works better than their old school? I have not done it myself but prefer it rather than DC attending their old school.

Please help where I could find useful information (I will also go and do some research).

Thank you.

You really don't need a solicitor.Honestly.

You shouldn't need one...it just keeps things formal and lets them know you're not going to be trifled with.

You don't need a solicitor. Non of my HE friends have used one.

In my experience some home educators get a bit conspiracy theory about schools and LEAs. There is no need to instruct solicitors. Schools and LEAs do not have the time or resources to relentlessly pursue HEers- they have enough on keeping up with the children they are responsible for!

Yes Bertrand, but it just gets a bit tiresome corresponding with incompetents or being threatened verbally by them. And new home educators who are still finding their feet may prefer to have all of that stop.

A hint of legal action can bring things to a close nicely. Copying in the LA's own legal department is another useful method of achieving this, because they are generally pretty hot on reining in colleagues who misrepresent the law.

Bertrand Speak for yourself, it almost entirely depends on which area you're lucky or unlucky enough to live in. In our area, it makes perfect sense to keep things formal and legal - and many families are paying the price of not being able to prove that they didn't make statements that are now attributed to them by the LEA.

I've met a few nannies and au-pairs at home ed groups..it is possible to arrange a lot of outings and meetups (for example if you google home ed for your particular part of London.). You can often join Yahoo Groups and literally reams of educational and social opportunities, without ever needing to invite anyone into your house, will pop up, which your aupair could take the kids to.

Once a week there is likely to be a social meetup in London parks for example for all ages up to about 14.

The Log Cabin does a meetup in Northfields every alternate Wed 12-2 which people travel to from quite a distance. Next one is a week on Wednesday (so not this week)

Workshops are all already getting booked up so dive in!

I just sent a deregistration letter - definitely no solicitor. One letter from the LA, slightly scary but we conducted all conversations on the phone with the elective home ed lady, who wasn't scary at all. I told her about 4 months in what I was doing with ds2, social opportunities, learning opportunities, my plans. Less about what was wrong with school, more about what was right with my methods!