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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.
Did you know that the law requires education to be “efficient, full‑time and suitable” — but never defines what that looks like? That flexibility is what makes home education so empowering. Families can tailor learning to each child’s pace, interests, and wellbeing, without being bound by school hours or rigid structures. At Educational Freedom, we help parents understand their rights and responsibilities under the law, offering clear guidance and supportive resources for every stage of the home‑education journey.
Is your child starting to get upset or panicked about going back to school next month? 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.
As a home educator it is a bit of an unknown when it comes to dealing with the LA, a mix of stories flying around in groups, some positive, some not... a really good way of knowing how your LA behaves is by reading the LA portfolio on Educational Freedom's website. The portfolios are based on factual information, but your voice needs to be added. You can do that by reading your portfolio and following the link to the survey.
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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