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"Parents who educate their children at home are up in arms over the recommendations of the government-commissioned review into home education in England.
Home educators are using CYP Now's forums to lobby the government to disregard the findings of Graham Badman's review into home education.

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Parents are particularly concerned by Badman's recommendation that local authorities should have right of access to the home of home educated children, and should have the right to speak to each child alone if deemed appropriate, or in the company of a trusted person who is not the home educator or parent/carer.

Sarah Dickinson, posting on the CYP Now forums, said: "I ask you to consider the effect on young children of strangers, perhaps hostile, demanding entry to their homes (on pain of criminal proceedings) and taking them away for interview on their own, without their parents' support.""...more...