Home Education after the recent Badman Report

Hi all

I just wanted to let people know about the changes to Home Education after the Graham Badman Report came out this week and how it compromises the rights of all children in the UK.
Ed Ball wants to go ahead and implement changes immediately... this means we have got very little time to stand up against this.
I have put together the website to be user friendly and specially aimed at anyone that has missed the report or thinks that because their child is not home educated this does not effect them, it actually has serious implications for all children in the UK and their right to privacy and their life decisions.

This is the link to the website: Home Education after the Badman Report.


The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

Article 16: Children have the right to privacy. The law should protect them from attacks against their way of life, their good name, their families and their homes.

Graham Badman report on Elective Home Education.

Reccommendation 7: that designated Local Authority officers should have the right to access the home and to speak with the child alone without parents present and without their consent...

There has been a lot of bad press lately about home educated children being at risk of abuse, but as there is no evidence or any cases of this Graham Badman has had to state this in his report, however he still went on to change the law as if this was the case.

The NSPCC apologised publically recently about associating abuse with home education, you can find a link to this on the webpage.

Please try and consider Graham Badman's proposals and the wider implications and the loss of rights due to this report, if you feel strongly enough then please do write to your MP's, fill in the survey, write to Ed Ball or reply to the consultation. (links can be found on the website.)

Thank you for taking the time to read this and please do forward this information, so many bills are passed these days without people being aware of the changes in their rights.

Peace and Love
Christine, Jonathan and Cherry.