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.
There’s an influx again of organisations claiming to offer advice, or even discounts for home educators, but they charge a fee or a membership. Remember, you NEVER have to pay for support, information or even for access to a discount. Ensure the service you use is fit for purpose, ask if they have the necessary experience, are they in this just for the money regardless of the consequences to home educators…. Be careful folks. As always, everything you could possibly need for FREE is available on the Educational Freedom website.
The home education voice is vital in informing LA practice and policy, understanding what your LA is like from other home educators in your area is incredibly important to help you understand how to communicate with them. Filling in this survey takes less than 5 minutes and will go a long way towards informing some major projects we shall be announcing in the coming weeks. https://forms.gle/HnaYE7XFBxZXN3Qk8
Do you have books for home educating? Fictions? Biographies? Whats on your home ed shelf?
We’re often asked for resource recommendations, and whilst there’s 1000’s to choose from it’s important to understand the resource you’re using. Most websites, apps, and workbooks are designed as a supplementary resource to a lesson taught in school. They’re mostly not a standalone resource. For example, CGP workbooks can have 1 page covering a topic, and 3 questions. That isn’t enough to fully grasp a concept. So you would ideally supplement it, you could watch the Oak Academy video, do the BBC bitesize section and bring in real world examples and experiences. It’s the same for many resources, they’re designed as extra to another resource. It can be trial and error finding the resources that suit your child, and it can be easy to then stick to just that one, but it’s unlikely to actually cover the content in enough detail to thoroughly understand it. Of course there are some that are comprehensive, but these tend to be costly packages. As a home educator you are expected to ensure the educational provision is suitable, that means understanding the progress your child is making and that they’re understanding the content in enough detail. A suitable education is unlikely to happen when only one resource is used. It’s also important to remember there’s many ways to provide a suitable education, and if workbooks etc don’t suit your child then there’s other options including hands on learning or discussion. We talk more about styles on the Educational Freedom website.
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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