Parents who home educate are worried about a new law that strengthens the powers of authorities to issue fines and force children into mainstream schools if they don’t comply with the rollout of a new mandatory register.
The British Government’s Schools Bill, which is currently in the House of Lords, is a new ambitious piece of legislation that aims to raise schooling standards across the country by increasing attendance and improving safeguarding.
But parents of home-educated children told The Epoch Times that they now face a “frightening prospect” that they are being judged by a “whole set of standards” made for the schools they wanted to remove their children from in the first place. …