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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.
Well… actually there’s no such thing as annual contact and definitely not annual reports. Sort of. The law allows the LA to identify children missing from education, to do that they are allowed to make informal enquiries of home educators on an ‘at least annual basis’. Once it is established that the education is suitable then contact should be ‘very brief’. Though the LA can get in touch if there’s been a change in the child’s circumstances. Contact should be proportionate, and not ‘exert more oversight than is actually needed’ and encourage a positive relationship. What does this mean in real life? It means the LA can make enquiries whenever they want, but it is generally accepted that more than once a year is akin to monitoring which is not allowed. Their enquiries should not be formal or dictate how you reply, our advice is to only reply with a 1-2 page ‘report’ using the report writing guide on the Educational Freedom website. It’s safer than a visit or a phone call, ensures you provide the info the LA needs without dealing with any overstepping questions included in their forms etc. You should never preemptively send a report, always wait for the LA to make enquiries, and after a couple of years it isn’t unreasonable for your responses to be very short (couple of paragraphs). This is correct information as of 3rd December 2025 the law could change so always refer to our website for up to date info.
Think you know everything about home education? You might be surprised. Our website offers clear, factual information that often challenges common assumptions — helping you understand not just what you think you know, but what you may not yet have considered. Take some time to explore so you can make informed decisions and avoid potential issues before they arise. #EducationalFreedom #HomeEducation #HomeEd #Information #Guidance
Here is a question that makes many people uncomfortable: What if school is not the best environment for every child? For generations, society has treated school as the default — the unquestioned centre of education. But the growing number of home educating families suggests something important. For some children, school simply does not work.
One of the biggest worries parents have about home educating teenagers is simple: “But what about their future?” People often imagine that if a teenager leaves school, they won’t get qualifications, won’t get into college, and won’t have good career options. But that’s not how it works. Home educated teenagers still have many routes into adulthood, work, and further education. And sometimes they have more flexibility, not less.
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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