Graham Badman Video

You can find links to the elective home education guidelines 2007 dcsf here

A fatastic rendition

Musical commentary regarding the review of Home Education in England

Home Education Video

Home Education in England is under threat from the dcsf who have accepted a report from Graham Badman .

Many of the 'facts' 'statistics' 'quotes' in the report are being questioned and the battle is ongoing.

You can find links to the elective home education guidelines 2007 dcsf here

I am posting a you tube video starring home educated children which is a wonderful message to the dcsf and Graham Badman

And an animation created again by Home Educated Children

home education

Although these guidelines for England have been removed from government sites by the DCSF they are still valid and have NOT been changed

They can be found HERE

we want the home educated child to have a positive

experience. We believe this is best achieved where parents and local authorities recognise each

others rights and responsibilities, and work together

They are linked to here on the freedom in education under threat blog

DCSF disappears their guidelines from their website. How very Orwellian. Thankfully, home educators are not so daft as to rely on the DCSF to retain these things, having experienced other guidelines disappearing in much the same way

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They can be read here hosted by the Home Education Forums

Local authorities should recognise that there are many approaches to

educational provision, not just a “school at home” model. What is suitable for one child may

not be for another, but all children should be involved in a learning process.

Another link to them here from the excellent team at AHEd

Following its disappearance from the usual location, and a thorough search, I cannot find a copy of the elective home education guidelines to local authorities that were published in November 2007. Please tell me where this can now be found.

Renegade Parent has linked to them in her post here

As they seem to have gone missing, why don't you link to them, too? In order that no-one slips through the net (and we know how important that is to Balls and co.) please link back to here - and to everyblogger else who does this.

Thanks to Renegade Parent and Debs for collecting together the following references

''Very undemocratic and very deceitful but since when did democracy and truth bother this government? They disgust me. Good job someone thought to save the guidelines to file. Here they are:-''

Patch of Puddles doesn't duck the issue

''This is a strange thing; these guidelines were thrashed out as a result of the last EHE consultation, between government and home educators, and are the current best practise guidelines for LAs when visiting and being involved with HE families. That was done at public expense – only 2 years ago. YOUR MONEY. Which they are now spending AGAIN on the basis, presumably, that they didn’t do it well enough last time. ''

Surrey Home Ed mourn the loss

''Clearly Ed Balls’ minions don’t see any need to leave ‘outdated’ guidelines online where they might cause confusion.''

Darlington Borough Council appear willing to ensure families are made aware of their choices

I do like their website plenty of information on it , do you think they are in a time warp and haven't heard that families and communities have now been replaced by dcsf controlled hell?

Sunny Day has made a tidy links post re the missing guidelines that is well worthy of perusal

Polytunnel is happy to provide links

Sometimes It's Peaceful keeps it to a simple question

This blog is a must for anybody seeking a factual account of the whole process of this 'review'

Maire gives her view on the vanishing guidelines here

Muddy Bare Feet trample through the mystery here

It’s very hard not to see this latest turn of events in an extremely suspect light. The deadline for the Select Committee Inquiry into the Badman Review was last Tuesday. The Inquiry is to look into the conduct of the review and the recommendations in Badman’s report. Many people submitting evidence to the Inquiry will have referred to and linked to the 2007 Guidelines, but later on in the same week of the deadline, these Guidelines have been removed from the DCSF’s website, so all those links and referrals will no longer work.

The Jumps object to the hoops Home educators are expected to negotiate

For reasons no-one is clear of, though we could make a few guesses, the current, valid, relevant at the moment government Guidelines for Local Authorities on Elective Home Education have disappeared from the Department of Cushions and Soft Furnishings’ website. Far be it from me to spread paranoia regarding government motives, but I do think that, since the guidelines are current, and all attempts to have them superceded are at best incomplete, then they ought to be available, don’t you?

Globe on my Table has tried to map events

who need them:

Parents
Voters
Members of the Select committee which will soon be looking into the Badman Review
MPs
Lords
Interested individuals following these events from overseas
Me, as they are relevant to what I am doing right now as a Home Educating parent

and of course the many Local Authorities.

AEUK have given a valid and valuable opinion here

Click here to find the missing 2007 Elective Home Education Guidelines for Local Authorities.

They used to be HERE but they seem to have vanished!

A Life Worth Living intends to keep it that way here

Seems the 2007 Guidlines for Local Authorities on Elective Home Education have gone missing from the internet nowhere to be found.

IRDIAL I have such respect for this Blogger and his take on it

Memory Holed by the without explanation. The probability that they were deliberately removed divided by the probability that they were deleted accidentally is one

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