Below are articles about all different elements of home education, updates on legal matters, blog posts from home educators, as well as the previous newsletters we have sent out to home educators, as well as those we sent to LAs.
These are all written in addition to the main content of our site accessible via the menu.
From the 28th February to the 8th March we are running the official Home Education Awareness week. There will be a whole host of events and activities, including live Q&A events on our Facebook Page (and hopefully our TikTok), a competition for home ed kids to win a £50 voucher ENTER HERE entries close 1st […]
12/2/2025 #areyoulisteningnow is the next step in the campaign against the wording of the home education elements of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. We won’t go into detail (again) about the wording of the bill, you can read any of our previous posts to see what the proposals are. Instead we will will stay […]
5/2/2024 First we will explain briefly what the changes would be, then what you need to do now. The proposed children’s wellbeing and school bill will require home educators to register, but that register is going to require a ridiculous level of information from parents, this is AS WELL AS the LA enquiries about the […]
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 […]
23/1/25The scrutiny committee met for the first time this week, and meet again today to start discussing the Childrens wellbeing and schools bill. This is where the first lot of amendments will be discussed. But they need to hear from you to know which parts are problematic (all of it if we are being honest), […]
If you do not spend your days reading government bills, legislation etc then we can completely understand how getting involved in the children’s wellbeing and schools bill could be overwhelming and confusing. We are trying our best to provide detailed but easy to understand information. We have written lots of posts since December about the […]
This is the link to download our annotated version of the bill. Read our other posts to fully understand what our concerns are.
10/1/2025 You’re probably fed up of trying to understand the legal jargon, and the political process, and tired from appearing to always be fighting for home education. We have more fight in us, and we hope you do too as more work needs to be done. DO NOT DELAY TAKING ACTION AS WE HAVE UNTIL […]
UPDATE 10/1/25 any reference to first or second readings of the bill or writing to your MP are now outdated (things move fast),though some information in the below article may still be valid as the bill has not yet been rewritten. The latest advice on what to do and say to your MP can be […]
UPDATE 10/1/25 any reference to first or second readings of the bill or writing to your MP are now outdated (things move fast), information in this article may still be valid as the bill has not yet been rewritten, the latest advice on what to do and say to your MP can be found HERE. […]
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