The government has been carrying out a sustained attack on home educators for several years now, many non home educating families may have had little sympathy for our plight, partly because it doesn't affect them, partly because they think we are a bit odd and need to be clamped down on.
I've been saying that it is not a home ed / school ed thing, the government wants to clamp down and take control of ALL our children, their tactics are to identify and tackle small groups rather than take us all on at once - BEWARE, they WILL be coming for you and yours!
The latest move is to enforce Home School Agreements, failure to comply or refusal to sign may be used as evidence in a magistrates court to support imposition of parenting orders and I dare say may even lead to forced participation in a Family Intervention Project ( I say forced - they are not compulsory, but you could face eviction or losing your children if you do not accept their 'help').
We must all put our differences to one side and put this government back in its place as providers of services to us and not dictators!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201452/Parents-forced-sign-school-contacts-ensure-children-behave.html
http://www.cypnow.co.uk/news/ByDiscipline/Youth-Justice/login/922213/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201462/Thousands-Englands-worst-families-placed-sin-bins-improve-behaviour.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-448038/The-Colditz-classes-coping.html
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(5) No person shall be excluded from such a school or suffer any other adverse consequences on account of any failure to comply with any invitation to sign the parental declaration.
ReplyDelete(6) A home-school agreement shall not be capable of creating any obligation in respect of whose breach any liability arises in contract or in tort.
How can they impose a fine then?
Who mentioned a fine?
ReplyDeleteYou are quite correct that you cannot be legally 'obliged' to sign the agreement but they can used your refusal to sign or failure to comply as evidence of your bad parenting when they then apply for a parenting order which IS legally enforceable and backed up by the threat of fines or imprisonment.
The government like to use secondary means to force you to comply with their directions. Seemingly unrelated and apparently benign legislation gets introduced because we don't see their intention, this legislations turns out to be so broadly defined that they can then use it in almost any way they like.
Take for example the anti stalking laws that were introduced to protect vulnerable people but are now used to stifle legitmate protest against corporations (including, but not limited to, arms manufacturers).
They soon will be able to impose a fine aparantly, I haven't read the legislation myself but the Telegraph mention it:-
ReplyDeletehttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5888788/All-parents-to-sign-behaviour-contracts.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8165209.stm