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Page last updated: 02-Mar-2008
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For help finding Local Lawyers either contact me or try these numbers
Family Law Association 0207 797 7837
Legal services commission 0845 608 1122

Law Commission 0207 242 1222National Legal helpline - I cannot vouch for this service but home educators are involved in the scheme and advisors have been briefed on home education.

Government guidance on Home Education to parents

Home Office police guidance for "truancy sweeps" under the provision of the Crime & Disorder Act (England & Wales)

A website that searches for your MP and his/her contact details - this may be very useful if you are in a jam.

The Home Education community's guidance for elective home education England & Wales only (pdf)- see below for Scotland & Northern Ireland

Deregistration letter and procedure Home visits

An article first printed in the journal of home education: explains why people should write an Educational Philosophy.

School Attendance Orders

LEA's responsibility to inform Parents of their right to Home Educate (Primarily in England Only though probably applies to Wales)

Flexi schooling

Educational Philosophy

Example of good practice from Milton Keynes LEA Work Experience

Compulsory School Age

The 1996 education Act Which covers England & Wales

A critique of Derbyshire LEA's home education policy

Child Benefit

The UK Human Rights act

The European convention on Human Rights

The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child

The legal situation in Scotland is different

A page of notes on Northern Ireland


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