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.
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 all of 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. Navigating through each page in turn really will help you understand everything you need to do. Then move on to the dealing with the LA section.
PLEASE NOTE: MOST PAGES SHOULD NOT BE READ AS A STAND ALONE PAGE, ENSURE YOU READ THE INFO IN OTHER MENTIONED PAGES TOO.
Where to find us after you've read our website.
Here’s a sneak peak at our public FB page feed where we share factual info as well as fun memes. Join our closed group for advice and to chat to other home educators.
When you started home educating did you…. (Read the note at the end too.) ❤️ take time to deschool straight away 😢didn’t deschool and things went wrong so then had to deschool 👍 didn’t deschool but allowed child led learning from the start 😯 jumped straight into formal school type learning and it’s carried on like that 😆 went straight into formal learning but changed to more child led. (Note that deschooling means time to settle in without school type learning and we explain what to do when you start home ed and much more on the Educational Freedom website).
Please SHARE with all home education groups and friends We’ve become aware that some tutors and organisations are charging to write—or help write—reports for the Local Authority (LA). This can actually be harmful to both you and the home education community. Remember: home education is far more than what a tutor provides. A report written by someone else may not cover what the LA needs, and there’s no guarantee it will be accepted. We’ve seen many examples where crucial information was missing. Relying on a tutor to write your report also sets a concerning precedent: it suggests parents cannot provide their own evidence of education. In fact, concerns have arisen in some cases because a tutor-provided report does not demonstrate that the parent is taking responsibility for their child’s learning. There is free support and a guide to writing reports available on the Educational Freedom website. When responding to informal enquiries from the LA, we recommend replying in writing to keep a paper trail—but your correspondence should be brief and to the point. Your involvement is what counts most—your child’s learning, your record-keeping, and your voice are what matter.
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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