The School Place Offer That Filled Us With Dread For many families across England, early March brings an important moment: secondary school offer day. Emails and letters arrive confirming where children will spend the next five years of their lives. Social media fills with excited posts from proud parents celebrating places at popular schools. But […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

30/1/26 England and Wales, NOT Scotland will be affected by this. We are asked all the time for a template letter to use to send to MPs, however at this stage in the children’s wellbeing and schools bill a template is not going to do us any favours as you’ll get a generic response. Instead […]

Written 29/1/26 Most of you will have heard of the children’s wellbeing and schools bill, or heard talk of changes to home education law, but you may also have heard lots of political jargon, reference numbers and language that is not easy to understand. So, here is our take, without the complicated language of how […]