Parliamentary Petition
Home educators managed to get the most Parliamentary Petitions ever handed in to the Houses of Parliament. All the constituencies covered by the South West Surrey group handed in petitons.
The Petition read ...
To the House of Commons.
The Petition of persons resident in the --- parliamentary constituency.
Declares that they are concerned about the recommendations of the Badman Report, which suggests closer monitoring of home educators, including a compulsory annual registration scheme and right of access to people's homes for local authority officials; further declares that the petitioners believe the recommendations are based on a review that was extremely rushed, failed to give due consideration to the evidence, failed to ensure that the data it collected were sufficiently robust, and failed to take proper account of the existing legislative framework.
The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families either not to bring forward, or to withdraw, proposed legislative measures providing for tighter registration and monitoring of children educated at home in the absence of a thorough independent inquiry into the condition and future of elective home education in England; but instead to take the steps necessary to ensure that the existing Elective Home Education Guidelines for Local Authorities are properly implemented, learning from current best practice, in all local authorities in England.
And the Petitioners remain, etc.
Press Release
We produced a Press Release which was sent out to local media and the Surrey Ad carried an article with photo in their January 1st issue (to follow)
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