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.
This is Pamela’s story: Having hated school from 4 to 10 years old, my parents and I eventually found out home education was legal and they withdrew me from middle school. I didn’t realise until I was an adult but I had definitely developed school trauma in that time and (though I now know I […]
Why are so many teachers turning to home education? This week is home education awareness week, across websites and social media you will be reading lots of stories about home education. Many will be using the hashtags: #homeeducation #notinvisible and #EducationalFreedom During the 2025 home education awareness week we are all hyper aware of the […]
Let’s not beat around the bush, the proposed children’s wellbeing and school bill sucks and will massively affect home educators. . We are really struggling to find any other way of explaining it. It will require home educators to register, but that register is going to require a ridiculous level of information from parents, such […]
We are using this week (28th Feb to 8th March) to make the home educated child’s voice heard, as well as the rest of the family. Tomorrow (28th Feb) you can take part in the #areyoulisteningnow online protest. The competition for home educated children closes on the 1st, with entries being shared on our socials, […]
We’ve made a couple of things you can print, if you have any ideas on other printables then do let us know. Remember we are not graphic designers, if an image needs improving please get in touch. Posters, can be hung in libraries or community centres, or even doctors surgeries etc, please get permission before […]
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), […]
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