Politics

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026: what changes for home education now?

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026: what changes for home education now?

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...

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Update: How to contact your MP

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill Update: How to contact your MP

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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Parent and child sitting together at a kitchen table reading a newspaper. The Home Ed Daily

Childism, home education, and the politics of treating children as people

Childism, adult power, home education, politics, and why children deserve respect before they become adults.

There is something deeply uncomfortable about the way society talks about children.

We say they are precious. We say they are the future. We say they matter more than anything. Then we complain when they exist too loudly in public. We tell them to sit still, be quiet, fit in,...

Keir Starmer speech on home education: why families are concerned

Keir Starmer speech on home education: why families are concerned

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...

Why home educators must help shape national policy: lived experience matters

Why alternative educators should help shape education policy: lived experience matters

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...