The Portsmouth case was a judicial review brought by local home educators against Portsmouth council. Home educators in Portsmouth were seeking a ruling from a judge that certain actions of the council were not allowed.
Continue readingOn May 16 2023 MP Flick Drummond introduced a Private Members Bill to make a new law for registering children not in school. This is not a government initiative which is to say it is not a public bill. Rather, as the name suggests, it comes from an individual Member of Parliament.
Private Members Bills have to go through a prescribed number of stages in both Houses of Parliament and for Private Members Bills these debates can only take place on specific Fridays between certain dates before time runs out at the end of the parliamentary session. (A session is a single parliamentary year whereas a parliamentary term is the time from one General Election to the next, in theory 5 years)
Continue readingOn May 12th 2023 the Welsh Government issued new guidance on elective home education for local authorities which can be found via this page.
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This post explores the difference between a government being “committed” to something and actually being in a position to make it happen.
Continue readingDECEMBER 2022: THE SCHOOLS BILL HAS BEEN DROPPED. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO MECHANISM IN LAW TO INTRODUCE ANY OF THE PROPOSALS OUTLINED BELOW. READ MORE HERE
This post focused on what Part 3 of the Schools Bill said after being amended on Report July 18th about parents’ duties in respect of compulsory registration of children not in school.
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A number of government amendments mitigating the compulsory registration of children not in school [CNIS] were passed at the end of Schools Bill Report stage in the House of Lords on July 18th.
Continue readingDECEMBER 2022: THE SCHOOLS BILL HAS BEEN DROPPED. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO MECHANISM IN LAW TO INTRODUCE ANY OF THE PROPOSALS OUTLINED BELOW. READ MORE HERE
Today – July 18th – is the 2nd (and currently final) day of Report for the Schools Bill in the House of Lords.
Continue readingDECEMBER 2022: THE SCHOOLS BILL HAS BEEN DROPPED. READ MORE HERE
Continue readingDECEMBER 2022: THE SCHOOLS BILL HAS BEEN DROPPED. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO MECHANISM IN LAW TO INTRODUCE ANY OF THE PROPOSALS OUTLINED BELOW. READ MORE HERE
This post sets out my interpretation of the government’s amendments to the Children Not In School Register which at the time of writing were scheduled to be discussed at Report in the House of Lords on July 18th 2022.
Continue readingDECEMBER 2022: THE SCHOOLS BILL HAS BEEN DROPPED. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO MECHANISM IN LAW TO INTRODUCE ANY OF THE PROPOSALS OUTLINED BELOW. READ MORE HERE
Amendments to the CNIS Register for Report stage have been put forward by the Education Minister in the Lords. Report is currently scheduled for July 12th and 18th.
Continue readingDECEMBER 2022: THE SCHOOLS BILL HAS BEEN DROPPED. THERE IS CURRENTLY NO MECHANISM IN LAW TO INTRODUCE ANY OF THE PROPOSALS OUTLINED BELOW. READ MORE HERE
Report stage for the Schools Bill is set to take place on Tuesday July 12th and Monday July 18th 2022.
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