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		<title>The ethics of &#8220;home schooling&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should parents be allowed to educate their children at home, outside of the mainstream education system?
Home schooling is thriving in the United States, but it is illegal in Germany and...

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		<title>UK: Young people self-harming with sharp objects up 50%</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of young people admitted to hospital after cutting themselves deliberately is up by more than 50% in five years, according to new figures.]]></description>
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		<title>UK: The Review of Elective Home Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House of Commons
	Children, Schools and Families
	Committee
Second Report of Session 2009&#8211;10
Report, together with formal minutes
	
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		<title>UK: Select Committee Report, published</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Children, Schools and Families Committee

Here you can browse documents of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee arranged with the most recently published document at the top of each section.

More&#8230;
	
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		<title>UK: Elective Home Education review &#8211; epetition response</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We received a petition asking:

&#8220;We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to reject the Report to the Secretary of State on the Review of Elective Home Education in England by Graham Badman.&#8221;
Details of Petition:
&#8220;This report is a totally disproportionate response to a &#8216;perceived&#8217; problem full of unsubstantiated allegations that home educated children are more at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: “Parents bring up children, not Government”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think this is New Labour policy, think again
Clause 26 of the Children, Schools and Families Bill currently in Parliament would lock home educating
	families into a bureaucratic system that is all about restricting educational freedom and nothing to do with
	ensuring children are well educated and looked after.
Write to your MP now and demand that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Schools and Families Bill &#8211; Home Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Home education: England





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Registration and monitoring





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In Chapter 3 of Part 1 of EA 1996 (local authorities), after section 19 there is 






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&#8220;Home education: registration and monitoring





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Maintenance of home education register





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A local authority in England shall maintain a register for the purpose 





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school age in their area [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK, Following the Queen&#8217;s speech: &#8216;Notice of refusal to co-operate/Declaration to Parliament&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/11/18/uk-notice-of-refusal-to-co-operatedeclaration-to-parliament/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About this &#39;Notice of refusal to co-operate&#39;, which is rapidly making the rounds.

It is for pparents to register their protest directly with parliament. A refusal to co-operate means anything from, saying no to demands, to time wasting, to absolute refusal to obey their law.&#34;

This is urgent, and requires active participation by all Home Educators. Please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council bans parents from play areas</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/10/28/council-bans-parents-from-play-areas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents have been banned from supervising their children in public    playgrounds, because they have not undergone criminal record checks.   

Only council-vetted &#34;play rangers&#34; are now allowed to monitor    youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from    outside a perimeter fence.

The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Home educators cry &#8220;foul&#8221; as Badman granted extra time to justify flawed findings</title>
		<link>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/09/18/uk-home-educators-cry-foul-as-badman-granted-extra-time-to-justify-flawed-findings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.learningfreely.net/2009/09/18/uk-home-educators-cry-foul-as-badman-granted-extra-time-to-justify-flawed-findings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Home educators today reacted angrily to the news that the DCSF has granted Graham Badman extra time to gather &#34;evidence&#34; for the Select Committee Inquiry  into his report on Elective Home Education in England, in which he controversially claimed that home educated children are at greater risk of abuse than schooled children. Formal submissions [...]]]></description>
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