HomeSchooler.org.uk

503 members now, thats fab! :)

Reading the emails is far easier if you do it on the group rather than via your inbox - go to the homepage http://groups.yahoo.com/group/badmanreviewactiongroup/, 
click on Messages, click on Older until you get to where you last were then you can scan through the headers and read as few or as many as you want, that way you won't miss anything but don't have to read them all.

To change your email delivery to Special Notices (please don't choose No Email, you could miss important announcements and I can't contact you if there's a problme with the group) and click on Edit Membership

ADMIN - thanks to those who have offered help, details of who's doing what in on the Database 

Polls - 3 new ones created, click on Polls on the homepage to respond

PR - Thanks to Norma for agreeing to be our spokesperson, others have offered help too so hopfully Norma will co-ordinate this

EVENTS - 

suggestions of a local groups doing fundraising events for charities, gets PR and public awareness as sell as funds for good casues

A Picnic in Hyde Park, possibly early September, more to follow

Database/Files/Links - 
lots of new info and ideas, please add any you feel are relevant

ACTIONS -
Pressure the LA's to contact all known HEers and tell them about review and consultation

Contacting Diana Johnson (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF))

Contacting your local MP, letters available in the Files section, please add record to Database.

This is the biggest single thing you can all do, so far 72 of you have, that leaves another 431 still to do it (please!) 
3 MPs have had 2 emails now and one (Twickenham) has had 3.

Admin vacancies
someone to collate all the positive responses to HE that Badman left off his review

someone to put a copy of the daily summary in the Files section and send a copy to Sarah at homeschooler

someone to re-activate the bouncing members

with all of these jobs the first to enter their details in Admin on the Database gets the job!

thanks again for such a fantastic positive group, I hope to meet you all at the Hyde Park Picnic!