I have recently become a Home Educating parent – I have had to take my daughterout of School (she is in Year 10), just 14 months away from her GCSE’s because the School wasn’t providing her with the extra support she needed, and she was being subjected to constant emotional and psychological bullying! My daughter does not have a learning disability as such but she has slow processing speeds and has difficulty with numbers, and suffers with social anxiety. I was about to write at length a response to The Home Education Bill but have found this detailed response from another Home Educating parent which reflects my views completely: The Home Education Bill – a brilliant response If there is to be a Home Education Bill, it should be a Bill which supports parents who exert their right to choose Home Education by providing them with a resource package to cover the costs of doing this – i.e. a Direct Payment system just as exists for social care where a Home Educating budget could be spent on books, materials, tutoring, equipment etc. This would be fair as they are not costing a school place in the mainstream system. There should also … Continue reading Home Schooling parents need support and resources not being turned into Villains by Labour’s Lord Soley