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Thursday 8 April

EO press release: Government drops licensing scheme for home educators

Home educators today feel a huge sense of relief as the Government has been forced to drop the home education parts of the Children Schools and Families Bill in a last-minute wash-up agreed by front benchers of the three major parties at the end of the current Parliament.

The Government had mistakenly attempted to rush through changes to the home education law in England without pre-legislative scrutiny.

Ministers and civil servants rashly dismissed the findings of the Select Committee Inquiry, which reported that the plans were "too aggressive", based on "less than robust" evidence and should be scaled back.

Ann Newstead, spokesperson for Education Otherwise said "We are thankful for the Select Committee's scrutiny and for the support of hundreds of backbench MPs who - unlike the Government - actually took time to listen and to understand how completely unjustified, inappropriate and ill-conceived these proposals were."

Annette Taberner, Education Otherwise Trustee said: "as a community we are now much more politically active and aware and we won't be sinking back into complacency."

Read more from the latest Education Otherwise press release here.