Home Education Bill: Helpful Hampshire and Kent

In the speech introducing his Home Education Bill on Friday November 24th 2017, Lord Soley said “two of the councils that have been most helpful to me on this are Hampshire and Kent.” 

Consultation Sandwell New Home Education Policy

Ofsted monitoring school exclusions

It’s disappointing that Ofsted doesn’t do more to check on maintained schools and academies use of internal and external exclusion. Potentially there are 4 ways this could be done currently, both at school level and at local authority level, although there are drawbacks to each:

alternative provision to avert permanent school exclusion

This is the third post in my guide to school exclusion in order that the all-important conversations with the school and with the local authority – especially if the child has a statement of SEN or EHCP – can happen much earlier in the process.

parents’ guide to internal exclusions (England)

welsh home education guidance tracked changes 3

2.3 The Welsh Government and children’s rights