Do School Holidays Affect Our Home Education?
One question I’m often asked is whether school holidays make a difference to our…
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.
Researchers at the Open Uni are undertaking a piece of research that we hope will encourage a better understanding of why parents are choosing elective home education and flexi-schooling, and provide insight into what home-educating and flexi-schooling parents would find useful. The intention of this work is to provide evidence to help MPs, Peers, LAs, and education settings understand why families are increasingly choosing elective home education or flexi-schooling, understand current experience of existing processes, and to shine a light on best practice from within the communities where people are seeing their children thrive and embrace a lifelong love of learning.
It’s a while until the summer exams and the end of compulsory school age, but it doesn’t hurt to know what to expect. 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.
Is it possible? Yes! 100% Every one of our owners works and home educates or has done in the past. It’s not always easy but for me, after 8 years we have an amazing education/home/work life. Remember, your child is now learning one on one, they have no targets they need to complete, exams can be taken at any time (or at all), you do not need to follow the national curriculum, and there are no set learning times! https://educationalfreedom.org.uk/home-educating-while-working/
Every family’s learning environment is different. It might be a dedicated room, a kitchen table, a stack of books by the sofa, or learning that happens outdoors and on the move. We would love to hear how learning looks in your home. If you are happy to share, please send a short description — or a photo — of your home education space. Your experiences help show the diversity and creativity of home education.
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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