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Children, Schools and Families Committee
Select Committee Announcement

Committee Office, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA
Media Enquiries: Rebecca Jones 020 7219 5693 / 07917 488549

No. 48 of Session 2008-09
7 October 2009

Elective Home Education

Oral Evidence Sessions

The Children, Schools and Families Committee will be taking formal oral evidence
as follows:

Monday 12 October 2009 at 4.45pm
Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses:

Graham Badman CBE;
Ms Diana R Johnson MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools, and
Penny Jones, Independent Schools and School Organisation, DCSF.

The purpose of this session is to examine the evidence base for and
recommendations of the DCSF
commissioned review of elective home education in England.

Please note these sessions will be open to the public on a first come, first
served basis. It is advisable to allow about 20 minutes to pass through security
checks. Committee rooms and timings are subject to change.

Please note that seating is limited and there is no guarantee of access to the
Committee Room. There is no system for the prior reservation of seats in
Committee Rooms. Interested parties are strongly encouraged to follow instead a
live video and audio feed of proceedings, which can be viewed on the
Parliamentary website at www.parliament.uk.

Wednesday 14 October 2009 at 9.30am
Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses:

(At 9.30am)
Jane Lowe, Trustee, Home Education Advisory Service;
Fiona Nicholson, Trustee /Chair Government Policy Group, Education Otherwise;
Simon Webb, home educating parent;
David Wright, home educating parent, and
Carole Rutherford, co-founder, Autism in Mind

(At 10.30am)
Colin Green, Chair, Families, Communities and Young People Policy Committee,
Association of Directors of Children's Services;
Ellie Evans, Head of Children Missing Education team, West Sussex County
Council;
Sir Paul Ennals, Chief Executive, National Children's Bureau, and
Phillip Noyes, Director of Public Policy, NSPCC

The purpose of this session is to examine the views of home educators, local
authority representatives and national children's organisations on the
recommendations of the DCSF-commissioned review of elective home education in
England and assess the desirability and feasibility of those recommendations.

Please note these sessions will be open to the public on a first come, first
served basis. It is advisable to allow about 20 minutes to pass through security
checks. Committee rooms and timings are subject to change.

Please note that seating is limited and there is no guarantee of access to the
Committee Room. There is no system for the prior reservation of seats in
Committee Rooms. Interested parties are strongly encouraged to follow instead a
live video and audio feed of proceedings, which can be viewed on the
Parliamentary website at www.parliament.uk.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

The Children, Schools and Families Committee is one of the House's Select
Committees related to government departments: its terms of reference are to
examine "the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for
Children, Schools and Families and its associated public bodies". The Committee
chooses its own subjects of inquiry, within the overall terms of reference. It
invites written evidence from interested parties and holds public evidence
sessions, usually in committee rooms at the House of Commons, although it does
have the power to meet away from Westminster. At the end of each inquiry, the
Committee will normally agree a Report based on the evidence received. Such
Reports are published and made available on the Internet. Copies are sent free
to those who give oral evidence. Reports usually contain recommendations to the
Government and other bodies. The Government by convention responds to reports
within about two months of publication. These responses are also published.
The Members of the Committee are:

Mr Barry Sheerman (Chairman) Labour, Huddersfield
Annette Brooke Liberal Democrat, Mid Dorset and Poole North
Mr Douglas Carswell Conservative, Harwich
Mr David Chaytor Labour, Bury North
Mrs Sharon Hodgson Labour, Gateshead East and Washington West
Paul Holmes Liberal Democrat, Chesterfield
Fiona Mactaggart Labour, Slough
Mr Andrew Pelling Independent, Croydon Central
Mr Andy Slaughter Labour, Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush
Helen Southworth Labour, Warrington South
Mr Graham Stuart Conservative, Beverley & Holderness
Mr Edward Timpson Conservative, Crewe and Nantwich
Derek Twigg Labour, Halton
Lynda Waltho Labour, Stourbridge

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