OMG - The Government is to Interfere with Home Ed kids.

[interflora]

Have just received an email from a Home Ed group stating that the Government are going to try Muddling about home educated children, by assuming that all home educated kids fall into the categories of Missing Education due to:

• convicted child
• children have drug addict parents
• children are vulnerable etc.

OMG I hate to imagine what the outcome will be if they go ahead with these plans?

Would the law be changed forcing all children to attend school?
Or would all home educated children and parents be regularly checked by the authorities?

The latter I have no problem with but the former doesn't bear thinking about.

Apologies, the link does not work.

Try this one:
www.londonscb.gov.uk/files/resources/BromleyProtocolforsafeguardingchildreninHEfinal.doc

onwardandupward - excellent Blog. I wish I had your writing and articulation skills!

Two words spring to mind with the Bromley framework, soon2b3.

One of them is ultra

The other one is vires

That document is treating HE as in itself a welfare concern which the law is explicit that it isn't. I believe that Bromley is notorious...

I will put something on your blog about this, because I always seem to be shot down when I write things on mumsnet - or taken out of context - or misconstrued.

I agree with you - and with everything you have written so far.

I am part of a local and national home education group (via the yahoo groups). I pulled myself out of one but I'll mention why off mumsnet.

I fear many more local authorities are following Bromley's 'lead' - including mine.

I am informed that Milton Keynes has a positive attitude to home educators (Buckinhamshire I believe?). It often feels that, beyond London, the further North you move, the more intolerant of Home Education the EWO tend to be - gross generalisation I know, but having been on other HE forums, this does appear to be the pattern.

I prefer to discuss my case in private as I am not prepared to put details on a national forum, but I think that my experience, and that of my neighbour, is not good news for the HE community.

re flexi-schooling, in essence a child is AT school but with authorised absences. So the same requirements are made of them as a school child, but the school is delegating some of this to the parents. The parents have to follow the NC, for example, and the children have to take SATs where applicable, and the results are included with the schools'

I am wondering how this will pan out in wales (education is devolved, so will not have automatic effect)

well I heard of someone getting a responder number 1074 about 5 mins before the end of the consultation.

That of course doesn't count the email responses or those sent in by post.

I just hope the majority were sent in by home educators making the point that home education doesn't automatically mean the children are vulnerable or at risk of not receiving an education.

Well done all of those who worked so hard to respond.

Just got to wait and see how they respond now.