Inform the future of home education
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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.
These are articles and news updates, to be read as extra to the rest of our site.
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.
Deciding to educate your child at home is a significant step, often taken because families want something fundamentally different from the school model. One of the most common missteps new home educating families make, however, is attempting to replicate school at home immediately after deregistration.
It doesn’t hurt to know what to expect when you reach the end of school. Our website explains child benefit, universal credit and tax credit rules for continuing to claim once your child is 16. Changes in 2025 allow you to be new to home education post 16 and still be entitled to child related benefits. See our website for full information.
Families across England experience Local Authorities very differently — and those differences matter. Educational Freedom is gathering real‑world patterns so we can better understand what’s working well, where practice varies, and where families may need clearer support. Our short, anonymous survey takes just a few minutes. No personal details are requested or stored — we’re simply collecting experiences so we can build a clearer national picture. - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5xB-2S_ckg_Jokbs_uqfvantQCEaPGXSi2qEKZDgpVJIjzA/viewform If you’ve interacted with your LA recently (good, bad, or somewhere in between), your voice genuinely helps strengthen transparency and improve guidance for everyone. Add your experience here: Educational Freedom survey Thank you for helping us support home‑educating families across the country.
We are often asked for help with science aids - there seems to be less of those around so we have compiled a couple of lists over the next couple of days to help you! Next up is Films - most of these can be found on Sky,Netflix, Disney or free on youtube - Please do share your favourite home ed films regardless of topic! #ukhomeed #homeeddad #homeedmum #homeedplanning #learningfromhome #homeeducate #homeeducationrocks #homeeducationlife #homeedideas
We are often asked for help with science aids - there seems to be less of those around so we have compiled a couple of lists over the next couple of days to help you! Third up is Podcasts. Please do share your favourite home ed podcasts regardless of topic! #ukhomeed #homeeddad #homeedmum #homeedplanning #learningfromhome #homeeducate #homeeducationrocks #homeeducationlife #homeedideas
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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