Protecting Home Education Wales

Open letter to the Education Minister

8th Oct 2021 by Protecting Home Education Wales

Protecting Home Education Wales are pleased to support the open letter to the Welsh Education Minister, Jeremy Miles, from Families First in Education – Wales asking him to engage fully with the submission to rebut the Children’s Commissioner’s interpretation that UNCRC demands a register of EHE children and for them to “be seen” by the… Read more

Children’s Commissioner presses Welsh Government to introduce primary legislation on HE

2nd Mar 2021 by Protecting Home Education Wales

The Children’s Commissioner for Wales (Sally Holland) has issued her review on the Welsh Government’s exercise of its functions under the Care Standards Act 2000 and claims to have found that, following the death of Dylan Seabridge in 2011, it has failed its duty to protect the rights of children who are home educated. You may… Read more

Legal Action against Portsmouth City Council

11th Feb 2021 by Protecting Home Education Wales

Portsmouth Home Education Group is fund raising to issue judicial review proceedings against the (allegedly) unlawful actions of Portsmouth City Council. They need £20,000 and in one day they have raised a whopping £14,450! (that is at 18:42 of 11 February 2021). It is wonderful to see how the home ed community in the UK… Read more

COMMONS INQUIRY ON HOME EDUCATION DECIDED ON RADIO 4 PROGRAMME

18th Nov 2020 by Protecting Home Education Wales

When we answered the call for evidence on the inquiry on Home Education launched by the Education Committee of the House of Commons, we expected that fair procedures and fair treatment would apply. That was until, on Tuesday (16 November 2020) the BBC Radio 4 Today programme (at approximately 8:34 am) interviewed the Chair of… Read more

CHILDREN’S COMMISSIONER SEEKS EHE REGISTER IN ENGLAND – IS WALES NEXT?

30th Oct 2020 by Protecting Home Education Wales

EHE Register – England The Children’s Commissioner for England says that a compulsory EHE register has been “agreed”, reports The HE Byte. When in an accountability hearing of the Education Committee at the House of Commons earlier this month MP Jonathan Gullies asked Anne Longfield, Children’s Commissioner for England, what changes she thought were needed… Read more

WHAT’S BEEN GOING ON

5th Oct 2020 by Protecting Home Education Wales

Children’s Commissioner – Wales The Children’s Commissioner will review the Welsh Government’s decision to put the HE guidance and database proposals on hold (you may already be aware of this as it was broadcasted on the BBC). The HE Byte’s recent column has an excellent summary on this. We would kindly suggest that Home Educating… Read more

New public consultation (likely)

17th Jul 2020 by Protecting Home Education Wales

In response to our letter earlier this month concerning the Welsh Government’s plans to “explore possible policy options for meeting the needs of home educated children”, Kirsty Williams, Minister of Education, has confirmed that any new or revised proposals by the next Government will be subject to a public consultation and that the Government “will,… Read more

Update on the Minister’s statement

10th Jul 2020 by Protecting Home Education Wales

Following the Minister for Education’s statement on 22 June, where, among other things, she announced that “Government officials will explore possible policy options for meeting the needs of home educated children” we have written to the Minister asking her to confirm that any new (or revised) policy on home education will be Human Rights compliant… Read more