P-05-923 Are you listening to us? Home Education Rights and Respect!
P-05-923 Are you listening to us? Home Education Rights and Respect!
P-05-923 Are
you listening to us? Home Education Rights and Respect!
This
petition was submitted by Mountain Movers Education Charity having collected a
total of 512 signatures.
Text of Petition
The draft statutory
guidance on home education is not fit for purpose. It sets to continue the
hostilities between local authorities & home educators both through the
language used in the document & the aims it sets to empower LAs to achieve.
There is a failure to
provide any credible support to home educators. There is a failure to protect,
respect & value home educators. This document does not recognise or support
them in any credible or effective means.
We ask the National
Assembly to investigate the role and pressure the Welsh Government have been
put under from the children's commissioner's office with regards to home
education & the extent this has shaped this guidance against the input from
stakeholders in the home education community.
We ask the assembly to
investigate the level of engagement the children's commissioner has with home
educated children & why from what engagement she has had, she has failed to
listen to their views about home education & is still continuing her
campaign against home educators.
We ask the assembly to
investigate why there are no safeguards throughout this guidance to protect
home educators & hold LAs to account in their conduct with home educators?
We ask the assembly to
investigate why there is no mention or recommending of signposting to the Welsh
home education charities in the guidance despite these being best placed for
support & advocacy for welsh home educators.
We ask the assembly to
investigate the feedback Welsh Government has received from primary
stakeholders & if Welsh Government has fairly represented their views &
needs to the same extent as the Children's Commissioner and LAs objectives.
Status
This petition was considered completed by the
Petitions Committee at its meeting on 07/07/2020.
The Committee considered the petition alongside P-05-
922 Withdraw the proposed home education guidance. In light of the Minister
for Education’s announcement that the planned reforms to home education
regulations and guidance will no longer be taken forward during this Senedd
term, the Committee agreed to close the petitions and thank all of those who
have engaged with it on this issue.
Full details of the consideration of this petitions
by the committee and related documents can be seen on the Meetings tab above.
It was first considered by the Petitions Committee
on 03/12/2019.
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Business type: Petition
Status: Complete
First published: 04/11/2019