Petition Against Home Ed Register

[Isawthesigns]

Now It Is Evident The Goverment Is Committed To A Register Of Children Not In School Which Will Be Followed By Assessments And Monitoring

Please Sign And Share The Petition Help Us Defend Our Right To HE Without State Interference

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I doubt this register will do any harm to those properly caring for and educating their kids. As a home educated child and a home educating parent, I think it's wonderful and as I have nothing to hide, I'd be glad that my kid and others will be looked after.

These assessments likely won't negatively impact any child, including children with SEND and behavioural issues. It's more likely to negatively impact the parents who can't home educate properly. People against it are walking red flags.

Surely you'd take the annoyance of your kid(s) being monitored if it means it saves even 1 child from an abusive home?

I,too, think there should be a register and also some sort of regular inspection.

I've no idea whether parents home educating their children are doing a 'great job' or not precisely because there seems to be no checking at all.

Children have a right to a good education, and a life away from their parents' direct control.

Absolutely should be a register and they should be seen once or twice a year by social services just for a chat.

There absolutely should be a register.

There are fewer eyes on home schooled children. A basic welfare check is surely not onerous.

There absolutely should be a register, there are no valid arguments for there not being.

What are your arguments for there not being one? Other than conspiracy theories/paranoia?

Human rights? What about the rights of vulnerable children who need protecting? There should absolutely be a register.

If HE parents are provided with access to resources as part of the process, it would only benefit them, surely? Others have addressed the safeguarding issues, but this really doesn't need to be so adversarial. Yes, there are people who shouldn't be allowed to homeschool, but really all that is planned is very basic monitoring.

I only know one family who HE and I'm hopeful that they are not representative of many more. The parents were HE themselves, by semi-literate family members and it was really just an excuse to make the kids do farm work all day. They then in turn home educated their own kids in exactly the same way. Those kids in turn grew up and sent their kids to school, I'm glad to say.If there had been some sort of oversight of this situation, then two generations would have had access to proper learning and decent prospects.

No sensible person would claim that educating a child is an easy thing. If guidelines are available and periodic checks are made, then surely there would be a framework for support and referral where, for example, a learning difficulty was suspected. Parents could get reassurance and there could be some attempt at monitoring the standard of education provided.

I'm as anti-establishment as the next person and I have had serious issues with authority and the abuse thereof, but even I can see that this is a good thing. Has anyone started a pro-registe rpetition yet?

No problem if that isn’t an issue for you. It definitely is for me because I know it won’t stop there.

Is this one of those ‘slippery slope’ arguments, OP..?

You’re paranoid that if there is a register, before we know it, the state will be mandating vaccines and demanding food diaries for what we feed our children?

Like those people who opposed the smoking ban in pubs because if we let the government do that, they will be banning alcohol and chips before we know it?

I home educate and there is already a register that the local authority holds and your child goes on it when they come off the school roll. Annual assessments are also carried out by the local authority.

I think the proposed register should be called the safeguarding register.

The issue of monitoring the standard of education should be separate. I can’t find any detail on what the proposals are to help home educated children. Making exams free to sit would be a start.

I am also surprised there isn't a register already, of course there should be

I agree with those who think a register is sensible. The Government response to the petition is fine I think but it is clearly taking some time to respond to the consultation, which is a shame.

There is a register!

...I know it won’t stop there.

What else do you think is going to happen @Isawthesigns?

Education is the silver bullet.

Every child deserves access to a GOOD education and I very much hope that a register and regular monitoring will be put in place.

I home educate and there is already a register that the local authority holds and your child goes on it when they come off the school roll. Annual assessments are also carried out by the local authority.

That's maybe a LA thing. But what happens if kids aren't ever registered for school or preschool the LA doesn't know they exist.

@RedCake

I home educate and there is already a register that the local authority holds and your child goes on it when they come off the school roll. Annual assessments are also carried out by the local authority.

I think the proposed register should be called the safeguarding register.

The issue of monitoring the standard of education should be separate. I can’t find any detail on what the proposals are to help home educated children. Making exams free to sit would be a start.

My understanding is that there's no record of children who never attend school.

I absolutely agree that exams should be free to sit for HE families.

@TakeMeToKernow I agree every child deserves access to a good education.

The system is broken for many. Medical education provision, for example, is a maximum of 5 hours tuition a week and that is patchy and takes months to access.

Children with SEN are waiting up to 3 years for adequate support so that they can access education.

www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/school-report-2021

@UndertonesOfCake good point on those that have never attended school.

Anyone that has been in the school system at some point will be known to the local authority.

There should definitely be a register - what's to stop barely literate parents taking their out of education to 'educate' them? How can parents who have a very poor standard of academic attainment themselves be able to teach the national curriculum to any half-decent standard? It's bonkers.

I did HE my own DCs years ago. I was always surprised that nobody in authority knew we were doing so. I kept a diary of what the DC did every day just in case we did get an inspection. I would have no problem with a register and would have appreciated any support and advice that anyone checking up on us may have been able to provide.

I too would appreciate support but my concern is that the monitoring will result in a list of actions for parents with no actual advice, funding or direction.

That’s why I think a safeguarding list is the way forward.

I think the quality of English (c&p or otherwise) and (lack of) ability to construct a logical argument is an argument in favour of keeping track on home Ed.

It’s almost as though the government wanted the nutters to reveal themselves