Educational Freedom is a non-profit organisation providing Home Education information and support. Our primary purpose is ensuring all Home Educators have access to FREE information and support. We aim to provide everything you could ever need to know about Home Education.
A great way of ensuring your Home Education journey goes smoothly is to read all of this website. The menu at the top will help you navigate each section.
On each page of our website you will find a video with the audio of that page. (This is a new feature so give us some time to create them all and add them).
Making the decision to Home Educate can be daunting. But be assured that there is plenty of support out there! There are lots of families that have been in your situation, and we have supported tens of thousands of them.
Read through our website to learn all about Home Education. Use the menu to navigate through all of our pages especially the WHAT TO DO FIRST page for your country.
Here’s a sneak peak at our FB page feed where we share factual info as well as fun memes. Drop us a like, a follow and come chat to other Home Educators.
If you do not spend your days reading government bills, legislation etc then we can completely understand how getting involved in the children's wellbeing and schools bill could be overwhelming and confusing. We are trying our best to provide detailed but easy to understand information. We have written lots of posts since December about the bill and what it will mean....
Dear All, we offer an INCREDIBLE report guide which is hugely detailed and step by step as an aid to help your write your report. There is no need to pay anyone at all to check your report if you followed our guide. A checked report (even when paid) has no guarantee of being accepted and is a huge waste of money that could be spent on your home education. It is downloadable and free to access - no joining needed. Have faith in yourself and remember we are here to help if there are any issues. Please head over to our website and feel free to use!! #ukhomeed #homeeddad #homeedmum #homeedplanning #learningfromhome #homeeducate #homeeducationrocks #homeeducationlife #homeedideas #homeedLA #homelearning #learningathome #EducationalFreedom #homeeducationfamily
Previously we have been contacted by a lady who was being threatened with an SAO, she had 15 days to fix this. But the LA gave no real helpful information on what the concerns were. No idea ok how to reply. And no links to sources of help. In December she had received an email asking for information about the provision. The lady replied asking why she was being emailed as she had always previously received letters and forms to fill in. The LA responded claiming they’d sent 3 letters. These were never received! The lady replied again, asking what information they wanted as no form was included. The LA did not reply. At this point we would like to point out the importance of knowing the law for yourselves, knowing there are lots of ways to provide information to the LA, and that it is your responsibility to decide how to provide the info, and your responsibility to ensure the education is suitable. The LA are not there to help or support you (we are though). As she hadn’t received a reply, she didn’t think any more of it. Until the SAO threat arrived, in it they claimed they’d started proceedings in November! We are grateful that the lady listened to everything we said, she went onto our website and used our guide to write a comprehensive report, and sent it in. We had included a covering letter for her reminding the LA that they hadn’t responded to her, that they’d offered no actual helpful information, and that serving an SAO on a 16 year old about to do already paid for GCSEs would be ridiculous. We then heard that our support has meant the SAO process is cancelled and the education deemed suitable. The moral to the story, know the EHE guidance, know the rules and processes before getting into problems. We are of course here should you not find the info you need on our website.
DO NOT IGNORE THIS MESSAGE - AND PLEASE REMEMBER TO SHARE It’s time for action now, if you want to protect home education as we know it. We have no time to delay as there’s only 4 weeks to get responses in. (11th Feb). DO NOT BURY YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND. THIS WILL AFFECT YOU AND THE ONLY WAY TO STOP IT IS TO SPEAK UP! The children’s well-being and schools bill is not just a register of home educated kids, it proposes to change your right to deregister, demands a ridiculous level of detail about people involved in the learning (this includes your Nan, neighbour, postman etc), every website used, etc, it in effect bans most styles of home education, it allows the LA to decide what is best for your child, prison if you fail to abide by an Sao even if it was served maliciously (which some LAs do), and so much more harm. Whoever wrote it clearly does not understand home education at all. What we need you to do is write your your MP, with explanations about why each section of the bill is wrong, and that a register won’t actually find the missing children. And we need you to submit a response to the bill committee. We explain the bill and how to write to MP and committee here and in many other posts, read this page first then look back over the older posts for further explanation on the bill, https://educationalfreedom.org.uk/2nd-reading-of-the-childrens-wellbeing-bill-and-home-education-register-what-next/ And here is where you can submit your response to the committee. Again the link above will help with your reply. https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2025/january/childrens-wellbeing-and-schools-bill-call-for-evidence/ If you are feeling confused or overwhelmed by all of this please take a breath and reread our website info about the bill, and the kind of thing needing to be said to the MP and committee. We have tried to keep things as simple as possible as we know it’s confusing and scary.
Share with us what some of your favourite home education activities are? We love monthly budgeting - maths, food tech etc, Cooking - food tech, science, maths, english, Films often cover - history, english, science, geography.... #homeeducation #homeeduk #homeeducator #educationalfreedomrocks #homeeducate #homeedla #educationalfreedom #homeedlife #homeeducationuk #homeed
We have many decades of hands on Home Education experience between us and many years as a professional support service.
Our team is made up of people from all walks of life, and all styles of Home Education.
We never have, nor will we ever, charge Home Educators a fee to access our website, personal support or anything else.
However, we do have costs such as web hosting, so feel free to donate.
Our aim is that our website contains everything you should need to know.
Beyond that we have a Facebook Page where you can connect with other Home Educators and our amazing admin team. We also have the option to contact us, for those times where you don’t have Facebook.
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