Home Education

A powerful stand for parental rights at the CWSB Exeter rally #TheHomeEdDaily #ChildrensWellbeingBill #AreYouListeningNow #HomeEducation #ParentalRights

On Saturday, home educators, parents, and supporters came together across the country to stand up for parental rights, educational freedom, and the protection of children . The rallies were a testament to the strength and...

Home education | Homeschooling advice In the UK the preferred term is 'home education'. If you see me using it, that's because the USA biased Google algorithms proritise their search results for 'homeschooling'. Read why correct terminolgy matters .

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Why terminology matters to home educators When you choose to educate your child outside the school system, the words you use matter more than you might think.

In the UK, the preferred term is home education . It reflects a legal and practical reality: parents or carers take full responsibility for a child’s learning, shaping it around their interests, needs, and pace.

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What Keir Starmer said about " homeschooling " and why it matters

I am genuinely outraged.

Listening to recent comments from Keir Starmer's speech in Hastings left me stunned. To hear home education spoken about in the same breath as extremism. To hear it framed as something that needs “tougher regulation” because schools are supposedly essential for integration. It felt deeply...

Are local authority visits compulsory for home educators? Why many homeschooling families choose not to accept LA visits. From time to time, local authorities contact home ed families and ask for a home visit, a phone call, or samples of work. These requests are often presented as informal or supportive. Many families agree in good faith. It is important to understand why a large number of...

Christmas with home education feels different. In the best way.

One of the things I love most about home ed at this time of year is the pace. We can slow right down. We can stay home when the weather is wild. We can choose quiet mornings with fairy lights, biscuits, and a box of decorations tipped across the table. There’s no rush to get out of the house. No last minute costume dramas. No...

Policy made without listening to home educators will always miss the point. The real expertise is with them, not Whitehall.

Here’s a simple idea that shouldn’t be radical at all, but is…

The DfE needs more than data. It needs the people who know children best.

If the government wants to understand elective home education, it makes sense to involve the people who actually do...

Why community is the quiet revolution in home education

“The most revolutionary thing one can do is to introduce people to one another.” — Howard Zinn

Home education is often seen as an act of quiet rebellion — a decision to step away from systems that no longer serve our children, and to build something smaller, slower, more human. But if Oscar Wilde reminds us that disobedience can...

Creating learning that fits your child, not the system

People sometimes assume home education is about escape, or ‘running away from the system’. As though we turned away from school out of fear, avoidance, or rebellion. But that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Home education is not an act of retreat. It is an act of creation — a deliberate choice to build something new,...

Home educated children are not “ invisible ”: why being out of school is not being at risk.

In recent years, a troubling phrase has crept into media headlines and government discussions about elective home education: “invisible children”. It’s used to describe children who are not in school, as though being outside the school system means they are unseen, unknown, or at risk. The implication...