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Thu, 05 Jul 2018
NSS backs home education reform
The NSS has backed a registration scheme and improved guidance for parents and local authorities on elective home education.
Wed, 11 Apr 2018
DfE consults on creating home education register
The government is consulting over proposals to introduce a register of home-educated children.
Wed, 11 Apr 2018
DfE U-turn leaves children in out-of-school settings unprotected
The NSS has criticised the government for giving in to faith groups over the registration of out-of-school educational settings.
Thu, 15 Mar 2018
Tackling unregistered schools ‘a priority’, says DfE
The Department for Education has said unregistered schools are limiting children's life chances and tackling them is a priority.
Sun, 04 Mar 2018
Extremists exploit lax home schooling laws, police study finds
Half of 70 known extremists in London removed their children from state schools to educate them at home, according to a study.
Related Opinion
Our education and schools officer examines the education proposals in the Government's new integration strategy and argues that they should lead to a wider discussion of children's rights and facing up to the religious segregation rife in education.
We can’t build a shared society around segregated schools
Thu, 15 Mar 2018
As a trial reveals the brainwashing of boys during evening classes at a mosque in Barking, Stephen Evans says the Government should defy faith groups which resist the regulation of out-of-school educational settings.
We can’t allow faith groups to hamper efforts to regulate supplementary schools
Mon, 12 Feb 2018
The Government is preparing to extend religious selection in faith schools. Keith Sharpe contrasts its willingness to cause greater segregation with French efforts to encourage integration in the wake of terror attacks.
Schools and segregation: a lesson from France
Tue, 30 Jan 2018
As supporters of a new Bill aim to see home schooling in England registered for the first time, education and schools campaigner Alastair Lichten says children's independent rights must receive greater focus.
Home schooling debate must prompt wider discussion of children’s rights
Thu, 30 Nov 2017
NSS campaigns manager Stephen Evans warns that growing numbers of unregulated religious 'schools' are badly letting children down, and argues that the rights of children to education should be prioritised.
Allowing children to languish in illegal religious 'schools' is the bigotry of low expectations
Wed, 22 Apr 2015