Does this affect you?

The simply answer to that question is Yes.

This review affects every home educator, every parent and every prospective parent.

The changes to law that this review might result in, will affect your legal rights and your relationship with the law, your local authority and your family.

The government's direction is clear, every person must be tracked from birth. Contactpoint, the massive and all encompassing database that is in the final stages of launch will hold sensitive details of every child in this country and that data will be available to 390,000 people in various agencies. Beyond that the government have an extensive policy of involvement in every persons life, which has been publicly admitted although their full impact underplayed. Some people have termed this the “Nanny State” where in the name of protection our freedoms are curtailed and controlled.

Any parent, present or future, may decide that the safest place for their child and the most efficient education their child may receive will be by way of home education.

If a parent has a philosophical, religious or safety oriented disagreement with the state model of education it is the parent who has the legal right to provide an alternative education for their child and this need not be in a school environment.

If this disagreement includes an objection to the performance based system, which is subject to constant testing of a child to ensure that they are learning at the “right rate” the parent has the right to provide an alternative. In doing so to apply the same enforced testing and monitoring would be no more than simply changing the place of “study” but retaining all the deficiencies that the original system inflicted.