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heas


A charitable trust that broke away from Education Otherwise in the 1980's to form an alternative support group.
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action for the rights of the child


A campaigning organisation for children's rights which has sympathies with the home education movement but is not itself a home education organisation. More
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autonomous education


A process of learning which when employed by home educators goes much further than schools using the same term. In short by autonomous education home educators mean that the child leads the education [..]
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compulsory education


This term refers to the ages during which the parents of a child have a legal duty to ensure that their child receives a suitable education More
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deschooling


The process by which a family will acclimatise itself to the new way of life of home education. In particular to find a method of education that suits them as a whole family. An appeal court case in 1 [..]
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department for education


The current name of the department that is responsible for national government policy on education. This department has undergone a bewildering array of names since the 1980's and will no doubt c [..]
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ehelg


"Elective Home education Legal Guidelines" The title of guidelines on home education produced by a group of home educators in 1998. EHELG was highly significant in building the confi [..]
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education otherwise


A phrase used first in the 1944 education act and later in the 1996 education act (section 7) to describe education other than in school. In addition to those children who are electively home educated [..]
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education welfare officer (educational social worker


An officer of the Local Education Authority who is often the person who will contact home educating families to ensure that they are fulfilling their duties in law. They may sometimes have other names [..]
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elective home education


To chose to educate a child at home as opposed to school particularly during the ages of compulsory education
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