Providing info to the LA – Never lie, use AI, or send a tutor report.
Home educators lead busy lives, we get it, so when it comes to replying to Local Authority enquiries it can seem an easy option to use AI or a website/app…
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.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️ HELP NEEDED- CALL TO ACTION ⭐️⭐️⭐️ TWO new ways for home educators, particularly those in Wales, to engage about the CWS Bill. (1) NEW WEBSITE on CWS Bill – Whilst much of the info on it is tailored to Wales but many of the points are applicable to England too. It’s to help us engage with MPs and Senedd Members, as well as be able to keep on top of info ourselves. https://wellbeingineducationwales.co.uk/ (2) SURVEY – views and experiences –can as many people as possible who have experience of home education in Wales please complete this ASAP - it’s only running a few more days. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyzPRKTzD-aey97_JM56ttO8i_e15Q2mBGgOEm6NEFEBuu4g/viewform?usp=header (1) Survey The Welsh Government have all kinds of ideas and plans of what they want to do about home ed, even beyond the measures in the CWS Bill. They are all based on the presumption that LA contact is always positive, necessary and above reproach, always in our children’s best interests, without mistakes, bias or misuse. We need those voting at the Senedd and at Westminster to understand that this is not always the case. Hence – this survey – for Welsh home educators – of experiences when that’s not been the case, and of views. Anonymous, won’t collect email addresses. We’ve only A FEW MORE DAYS to collect as many responses as possible. Can do it quickly if just do the tick box options And if not sure of any questions, can just scroll onto the next. OR if have time, there’s plenty of opportunity to add your own written comments. (2) New Wellbeing in Education Wales website Whilst this is Wales-specific info about the Bill - there will be information in the articles on points that apply to the rest of UK too which can use when engaging with politicians and others. As it’s a website, don’t need to be on social media to access – so please do share it widely with those who are not. Esp. those in Wales – Very easy to use this. Read an article, if resonates with you send it to your MSs by linking it, with one or two sentences on why you think this is important- that can be from your own experience, or just use one or two sentences from in the article – and then the link and ask them to vote against the motion on the CWS Bill in the Senedd on 3rd March. It’s really simple and quick. And can then repeat with whatever other articles you would like your elected representatives to see and understand. The most important article to get out to Senedd Members, especially those in Plaid, is this one – https://wellbeingineducationwales.co.uk/2026/02/12/evaluation-and-rebuttal-of-welsh-governments-present-justification-of-westminsters-cws-bill/ but that article is the longest (because essentially it covers pretty much all the points, so you may prefer to start with the shorter articles – we need our politicians to see them all. More info can be found at Home Ed Cymru https://www.facebook.com/groups/657102919670649 Plus on the public page Stop the Children’s Bill Cymru. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586201416709 If facebook is glitchy – links will be in comments. Please please do engage with this – For those in Wales, it’s only 2 weeks to the Senedd vote on whether to apply the CWS Bill to Wales. https://wellbeingineducationwales.co.uk/ https://wellbeingineducationwales.co.uk/2026/02/12/evaluation-and-rebuttal-of-welsh-governments-present-justification-of-westminsters-cws-bill/
Home educators lead busy lives, we get it, so when it comes to replying to Local Authority enquiries it can seem an easy option to use AI or a website/app that tells you what your child learned from different tasks. There is also the situation where the parent may feel that the LA won't accept what they do as suitable, so they explain something that may not actually be true, because it is what the parent thinks the LA wants to know. Or provide a report written by someone else such as a tutor. However, these are incredibly problematic things to do and LAs see them a mile off. https://educationalfreedom.org.uk/providing-info-to-the-la-never-lie-use-ai-or-send-a-tutor-report/
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