The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill has received Royal Assent. What happens now? The key message for parents.
The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill has now received Royal Assent and is an Act of Parliament. The Bill completed its final parliamentary stages on Tuesday 28 April 2026 and received Royal Assent on Wednesday 29 April 2026. The Act is for England and Wales. Families in...
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...
Note: In the UK, the preferred term is home education . If you see the word homeschooling used anywhere on this site, it is only because Google search is heavily influenced by US terminology, and many families search for that phrase first. The language matters, though. In the UK, home education is the clearer and more accurate term. Read why the...
In the UK, many families prefer the term home education rather than homeschooling . The difference may sound small, but the words we use shape how learning outside school is understood by parents, professionals, the media, and the public.
If you educate your child outside school, the words you use matter more than people might think. To some, home education and homeschooling sound like the...
What to do when your 13 to 16-year-old teen seems interested in everything except education, from gaming and screens to motivation, GCSE pressure and growing independence.
There is a particular kind of home education panic that seems to arrive somewhere in the teenage years. Your child used to have interests. They made things. Asked questions. Read books. Watched documentaries. Became briefly...
The real cost of homeschooling in the UK, from books, groups and days out to tutors, GCSE exams, travel and the income families may give up.
One of the first practical questions families ask about home education is also one of the hardest to answer properly: how much does it actually cost? You will find wildly different answers online. “Almost nothing.” “About £800 a year.” “Thousands.” All...
College, apprenticeships, qualifications and other routes. A practical guide to post-16 options for home educated teenagers in England, including college, A levels, vocational courses, apprenticeships, Functional Skills, work and continuing home education.
One of the worries that creeps in as home educated children become teenagers is what happens at 16.
Home ed burnout: when you’re tired of being responsible for everything. Why homeschooling can become exhausting, even when you still know it’s right for your family
There are plenty of articles about starting home education . How to deregister. What resources to buy. How to find groups. How to reassure worried grandparents that your child won’t spend the next ten years feral in a hedge....
What is deschooling? For us, it meant giving our son room to breathe before working out what home ed would become. Leaving school is a big adjustment for children and parents. Deschooling gives families time to find a different rhythm, rediscover how their child learns and work out what home education might actually look like.
You’ve sent the deregistration letter. Your child is home. And...
September has a strange amount of power. The shops fill with uniform, lunchboxes and stationery. Social media fills with first-day photographs. Conversations turn to new teachers, new classrooms and the question every child seems to be asked in August: “Are you looking forward to going back?” And if your child isn’t going back, it can feel as...
