The Question No One Wants to Ask About School Here is a question that makes many people uncomfortable: What if school is not the best environment for every child? For generations, society has treated school as the default — the unquestioned centre of education. But the growing number of home educating families suggests something important. […]

Why Are So Many Parents Quietly Leaving the School System? Something unusual is happening across the UK. Every year, more parents are choosing to remove their children from school and educate them at home. Local Authority statistics show elective home education numbers rising year after year, yet much of the public conversation still frames home […]

Whether you chose home education or came to it as a last resort, your duty remains the same – to provide an education that is suitable to your child. For many families, suitability means freedom. It means allowing the child some control over how they learn, what they explore, and when they engage. But that […]

Home Education Wasn’t Our Choice – It Was the Only Option Left Home education is usually discussed as a lifestyle choice. In public debate, it is framed either as a positive, values-led decision made by families seeking flexibility and freedom, or as a risky alternative that requires greater monitoring and control. What is almost entirely […]

Is home education actually right for your child? Home education has become increasingly common in recent years, it is often presented as a positive, flexible alternative to school — and for many families, it absolutely is. It can offer freedom, personalised learning, and a chance for children to thrive outside the pressures of the school […]

31/1/26 Over recent weeks, those of us campaigning against the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill have been subjected to a wave of hostility and misinformation. Home educators have been labelled “abusers”, “lunatics” and “morons”. We have been accused of hiding children away, and told that there is “loads of evidence” justifying mandatory home visits for […]

Rewilding Education: Rediscovering the Natural Blueprint for Learning Through Home Education By Andrew McKenzieWhy did we start believing that strangers in a classroom could teach our children better than the parents who love them? For millennia, the family was the “default setting” for human development. It’s time to stop looking at home education as an “alternative” […]

Why Deschooling Is Vital to the Start of the Home Education Journey — and Why Recreating School Too Soon Can Be Harmful 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 […]

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 […]

Hello everyone. A theme has surfaced recently through a few TikTok reels where home-educated teens share feelings of loneliness. While this is not the experience for every teen—and we all know social media captures only a fragment—it does highlight something worth paying attention to. For those outside the home education community—including local authority teams—videos like […]