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.
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.
Educational Freedom is currently analysing patterns in Local Authority practice across England — but to do this properly, we need input from families themselves. We’ve created a short, anonymous survey designed to capture experiences with LA communication, policies, visits, letters, and overall approach. No personal details are requested or stored. We’re looking only for patterns, trends, and lived experience to help improve transparency and accuracy in our national research. Whether your LA has been supportive, confusing, inconsistent, or excellent, your insight helps build a clearer picture for everyone. Share your experience here: Educational Freedom survey Your contribution strengthens the home‑education community.
Over the next couple of days have a look at different styles of learning and how different people approach it! - My daughter is autistic and we are totally flexible, there is NO formal learning despite me being an ex teacher. She has a phone, iPad and gaming PC plus drawing materials and a huge library of books of varying genres which she uses to educate herself on whatever she wants. We tend to visit museums, the local country park etc as and when she requests. Next week we are going to Beamish, last week we did ceramic painting, the week before we were in Liverpool at a Dr Who exhibition and the Central Library. We have also done Lincoln castle, Cathedral and cat cafe in recent weeks. She tends to learn through her research and through chatting about things with me.
We are often asked for help with science aids - there seems to be less of those around so we have compiled a couple of lists over the next couple of days to help you! Today is documentaries - most of these can be found on Netflix, Disney or free on youtube - Please do share your favourite home ed documentaries! #ukhomeed #homeeddad #homeedmum #homeedplanning #learningfromhome #homeeducate #homeeducationrocks #homeeducationlife #homeedideas
Deciding to educate your child at home is a significant step, often taken because families want something fundamentally different from the school model. One of the most common missteps new home educating families make, however, is attempting to replicate school at home immediately after deregistration.
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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