One question I’m often asked is whether school holidays make a difference to our home education routine. The short answer? Yes… but maybe not in the way people expect. However, like I’ve always said, there is no right or wrong way to home educate your child, so the way we approach the holidays might be […]

The bill is not law yet, but the home education element is finalised. How long it takes to become law will be down to how long government take to finalise the rest of the bill, then get secondary legislation out, and the EHE guidance sorted (we can all have a say in that, so sign […]

Over the last few days we’ve been accused of “scaremongering”, “fearmongering”, acting like a tabloid, and even told the news is good because it will safeguard children — all because of the information we’ve shared about the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill this week. Some of these accusations are coming from within the home educating […]

Home Educators Are F****d — Barring War, a General Election, or a Miracle The reality is now unavoidable in England, but Wales still stands a chance. The Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill is moving toward becoming law, and with it comes the most sweeping and intrusive changes to home education in England and Wales in […]

Educational Freedom’s Official Response and Discussion of the 2025 Scottish Home Education Guidelines. The updated guidelines can be found here: https://www.gov.scot/publications/home-education-guidance-2/pages/1/ and replace the guidelines from January 2007 (last updated 2021). Overall, the updated guidelines remain consistent with the previous iteration, albeit with a concerning tendency to push for physical conversations between families and the […]

We’re going to keep this quite simple, we don’t yet fully know what to expect, except that it could be a battle, but it usually is so we are used to that. There’s likely going to be a register of home educators, and there will be new EHE guidance. Neither of which anyone fully knows […]

Home Educating does not mean you are excluded from all the services a schooled child can access. In this article we shall discuss all things Home Education, special needs, disability and the EHCP. Having an EHCP does not change the deregistration process, there are no extra meetings needed, you do not have to wait for […]