- Paperback: 79 pages
- Publisher: Stationery Office (11 Jun 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0102961131
- ISBN-13: 978-0102961133
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,494,430 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On 19 January 2009 Graham Badman - former Director of Children's Services in Kent - was asked to carry out a review of elective home education in England. The terms of reference for the review emphasised the Government's recognition of parents' well established right to educate their children at home. They also set out the pre-eminent right of the child to receive a suitable education in a safe environment. While around 20,000 children are already registered, the actual number being home educated is unknown and could be more than double this number. The key recommendations include: (1) that local authorities should provide more support to home educating families, eg. through helping provide access to the national examination system, sports facilities, libraries and music tuition; (2) a compulsory annual registration scheme, in which all parents who plan to home educate have to inform their local authority; While around 20,000 children are already registered, the actual number being home educated is unknown and could be more than double this number; (3) at the time of registration, parents being asked to submit a statement of their intended approach to the child's education including what they aim to achieve over the following 12 months; (4) giving properly trained local authority officials the right of access to the home, following a minimum two week notification to the parents, allowing them to check that the child is making progress against their learning statement; they will also have the right to speak to the child, to ensure they are safe and well after which a written report must then be produced and shared with the parents and child; and (4) that local authorities can refuse registration to home educate if there is clear evidence of safeguarding concerns.
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Tragic.,
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This review is from: Report to the Secretary of State on the review of elective home education in England (House of Commons papers) (Paperback)
On the assumption that no parent can be trusted with their children, (because they might possibly be abusing them,) and that they must all therefore be routinely checked out by the people who really should be trusted, (because they work for the local authority,) Badman tries to make his case for the official right of entry to homes on the basis of no concerns at all and enforced interview of children separated from their parents, using dodgy statistics backed up with generous portions of vested interest, ignorance and prejudice. The recommendations are an impressive display of ultra vires demands based on impoverished and narrow minded failure to understand any form of education other than the state school model. This publication is a badly written, shoddy and poorly researched, but historic document signposting our tragic journey along the highway leading only to the graveyard of our freedoms in the UK via the manipulation of a superficially democratic framework. Very bad news for families and children
50 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
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Terrible,
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This review is from: Report to the Secretary of State on the review of elective home education in England (House of Commons papers) (Paperback)
Badman has quite obviously failed to research his subject , extremely ill informed .I would suggest anybody interested in education read Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
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A case study in poor research,
By donoharm (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Report to the Secretary of State on the review of elective home education in England (House of Commons papers) (Paperback)
A more poorly conducted and researched piece I have yet to see. Containing virtually no statistical evidence or analysis one might think that forgone conclusions had made the results of the research unfit for inclusion.
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