When Isolation Can Become a Concern in Home Education
by Gemma A lot of conversations around home education and “socialisation” end up revolving…
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.
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s your child starting to get upset or panicked about going back to school next week? Do they have SEN not being met? Are they being bullied and school refusing to adequately protect your child? Is your child bored at school? Are they not happy? Do they have school phobia? Does your child prefer learning whilst moving around? Are mornings a struggle for you or your child? Are the school days too long? There’s lots of reasons school doesn’t work for lots of children, in fact you don’t even need a reason to choose to home educate. You can do it just because you want to. Home ed is very rarely what people think it is, and it’s different for every single child. You’re not tied to school hours, so you can enjoy parks and museums when they’re quiet, you can meet up with friends, learn through play and experience, teens often function better late at night with home ed they can learn whenever suits them, home ed is what your child needs their education to be. No door is closed. You can still get and keep an EHCP, you can still do GCSEs (though they’re not compulsory), college and uni love the independent learning skills home ed kids have. You can work and home ed, be a single parent and home ed, be disabled and home ed (some of our team are all 3), you just need to find what works for the family. Remember home ed isn’t lessons to a timetable (unless that’s the style you end up following). Share so everyone knows home ed is an option.
June offers countless opportunities to spot STEM in everyday life. From measuring ingredients for summer recipes to observing how plants grow in warmer weather, STEM concepts appear naturally throughout the month. Maybe your child calculated distances on a walk, explored shadows in the sunshine, or asked a brilliant question about how something works. Share a real life STEM moment from your June learning week. These examples help families see that STEM doesn’t need to be intimidating — it’s already happening all around us.
Clear guidance on benefits can make a huge difference to families choosing home education. Many parents are told conflicting information, so this resource sets out the essentials in a simple, accurate way. Children under 16 Home education does not affect Child Benefit or Universal Credit. You do not need to notify them, and doing so can cause unnecessary confusion or even interruptions to your claim. Young people over 16 Each August, Child Benefit will ask what your young person is doing next. Completing the form online (not by phone) ensures the correct wording is used. Universal Credit will also need an update at the end of August. Because each benefit has slightly different rules, it’s important to follow the correct process for each one. Families can find full details, wording examples, and step‑by‑step guidance on the Educational Freedom benefits page.
Summer is a time where learning often happens in the most unexpected places. Maybe your child asked a brilliant question during a walk, calculated the cost of ice creams at the park, or turned a simple trip to the garden centre into a full discussion about pollination. These moments remind us that education isn’t confined to worksheets or desks, it’s woven into daily life. What unexpected learning moment has happened in your home this week? Sharing these stories helps new families see that home education is flexible, natural, and deeply connected to real world experiences. Tell us your favourite summer learning surprise.
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