Home educators wake up and start campaigning;
www.ahed.org.uk/ was launched in January
"NEW HOME EDUCATION ACTION GROUP GOES AHEd
Action for Home Education (AHEd) [1], an internet-based rights group for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, launches today in Derby with a pledge to act to protect the rights of parents and children who wish to enjoy home-based education without undue state interference, which they claim has reached an intolerable high and is set to worsen."
and then today there is this great news;
PRESS RELEASE
Education Otherwise, Britain's largest and longest established Home
Education Support Charity has just launched a new Campaign Website
www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/index.htm
The purpose of this innovative new website is to inform and empower
the home education community who are reeling from the news that the
DfES suddenly plans to launch a full consultation about Elective Home
Education without any dialogue with Home Education Support Groups or
with home educating families themselves.
Education Otherwise has also written to the DfES and to Alan Johnson,
Secretary of State for Education to remind them that home educators
are stakeholders in any debate about the future of Elective Home
Education.
Both contain information on how to get involved and defend the right to home educate.
The more directions we can come to this from the better IMHO
Well done to all involved in setting them up.
;o)