Politics

Mass email to MPs as Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill reaches amendments stage

In response to the 3rd Reading of the Bill in the House of Lords, the Stop the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill group are coordinating a mass email to be sent to all MPs. The bill is now in the Consideration of amendments stage.

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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...

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...