Homeschool: Dealing with Local Authorities - UK Home Education
If you're nervous about dealing with the local authorities when starting to homeschool then don't worry.
Here's our experience of dealing with our local authority and the steps we took to deregister our children from the local school.
0:00 - Hello
0:06 - Deregistering from school
0:43 - Providing a “suitable” education
1:03 - Local Authority involvement
2:00 - Our experience
Please note - this isn't meant to be legal advice. Please do consult the guidance yourself and make your own decisions about starting to homeschool. Guidance comes from latest published guidelines which were still current as of 15/01/2021.
If you have any questions please leave them in the comments down below or over on our instagram account. If you enjoyed our video then don't forget to hit the like button!
House of Commons Library, Briefing Paper 5108 (24 July 2019) - Home education in England
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Elective home education Departmental guidance for local authorities
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Elective home education Departmental guidance for parents
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Thanks Samantha. New to your channel and only for the past few days have we decided to go for EHE having been a bit scared off it as we are not teachers. However our daughter is in year 9 and been miserable since year 8 with toxic friendships and schools who just want the kids to conform like little minions. She wanted to end her own life and we got much better caring support from our local EWMHS. Home education is what my daughter is asking for and since we agreed to give it a go a massive glow has appeared in our daughter’s face like there is hope ahead. The more we look into we see so many advantages to having tailored learning covering essentials like maths and science to cutting out fodder (RE languages etc) and even trying stuff she is interested in like business and psychology. I think schools are so outdated churning out the same old rubbish that most people will will never use in life whilst treating the children like drones. No wonder most kids (even those who are getting by) hate school. It’s little wonder their emotional and mental health is battered - no adult would put up with years doing a miserable job if they hated it, if they had any choice yet we expect kids to do it. They have their whole life to learn and the learning environment in sixth form college or work is so much better and less rigid and judgemental. Thanks again for the helpful vid.
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Nick - lots of great points there. Sorry to hear about your daughter's experiences. If it's helpful, some of our more recent videos cover some of the resources we use (you don't need to be a teacher!) 💖
@NotMoreGames
2 жыл бұрын
@@HomeEducationJourneyUK Thanks. We have found our feet with resources you shared. So much better for children.
Thanks for this video. I am just starting home education with my 13 year old. My daughter is extremely anxious due to her negative experience in school. I look forward to her getting back to her old self. Really useful info.
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
4 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful! Good luck with everything - feel free to reach out if you have any questions of if there's anything we can help with :0) - BTW, some local authorities will fund GCSE studies for free at local colleges.
@sammyd66
4 жыл бұрын
@@HomeEducationJourneyUK Thanks will do I will check out if my LA can help. Appreciate your comment
@freddieparrydrums
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Samantha. I am almost 15 so the age your daughter is at now. I am starting as a have bad BDD and can’t handle school
Thank you this. Unfortunately our local authority are horrible (Portsmouth) and their main objective is to send all home educated kids back to school. We always have to fight and more often than not, go to court to fight for our children freedom. They won’t accept reports and demand to see work. I love watching your videos, as do my children xx
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Michelle! 💖 Sorry to hear about the difficulty you’re having 😕
@itsdominic3676
Жыл бұрын
Can't you seek legal action and take them to court for Harassment.?
@user-nb4pc6rx8b
Ай бұрын
You don’t have to show your child’s work to anyone let alone the LA, it’s your child’s data. Keep everything by email when communicating with the LA. Take out a civil claim against them for harassment.
Hey I just found your channel. I blog and vlog about home ed too and I can't wait to get to know you all through your vids. It's dead nice to find another english channel to watch a lot of the youtubbers are american x
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
4 жыл бұрын
Hey - glad you found us! Us UK Home Edders are a small community aren't we? Apparently the number has doubled since 2015, though! We love hearing others' stories and seeing what we can learn!
@lindaagu
4 жыл бұрын
Immediately I heard the British accent, I clicked SUBSCRIBE.
HI so im in yr 8 and i started homeschooling 2 days ago and my mom got me a few books, I used my science text book from school and im taking notes and answering a bunch of questions. I'm also doing a bunch of english quizzes online and im doing maths sheets and reading sheets (doing 2 or 3 pages everyday) do u think thats enough for a day, considering im only practicing for gcses and im being homeschooled for just a short time since im being bullied in my other skl. im gonna start writing a lot of stories aswell and making up my own lessons and going to tuition. what more can i do or is that enough ?
I have five kids oldest is a boy 10. I wanted to.home school all of them but I feel sometimes I dont have the confidence or ideas about what to teach them. So I end up sending them.back to school. I dont know what to do even though i know school is not bringing out their full potential and also trying to indoctrinate them with things i do t agree with. Pls advise thanks again
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
2 жыл бұрын
That sounds like a really difficult situation. Every family and every person is different and we all need different things. On what to teach, we have lots of videos covering some of the different resources we use. That could be a helpful starting point for you. kzread.info/head/PLyjxaJadTUoWWrXh2KofU_ZfbXzfLjI3f Maybe you could watch some of these (perhaps even share them with your kids) to see what sorts of topics interest them? Hope you find a solution that works for you. Please feel free to ask any questions and we'll do our best to help! 💖
Very informative, thank you! :) how often have they visited since? Is it annually?
Hello, I am considering homeschooling and that why I am here. I have subscribe and honestly I would really need more information about homeschooling and socialisation in homeschool setting. Thank you
@lindaagu
4 жыл бұрын
What curriculum do you use? I really want to start homeschooling my children.
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
4 жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry I missed your comments! We have a copy of the national curriculum we use as a guideline, but we also get a lot of content from Twinkl. Our Q&A video might be helpful: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qnt4lLyPnpyrlrw.html Feel free to ask any other questions and we'll try and do a *much* better job of replying :)
Hi i deregistered my 6 year old Grandaughter in September .Have not yet heard fron the Education Authority to send my report feeling a little anxious about it.Grandaughter been on the shielding list since march so would not be visits but a report an work samples.We are in Leicester. .years ago my youngest son was home ed an their was a lovely lady from the leicester area we welcomed into our home not sure how things are now .Can it sometimes take a while to hear from them an do i need to contact or just wait ?thankyou sorry for long post. Enjoying your vlogs.
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't worry - we didn't hear anything for over a year after we deregistered. And - as we understand it, you're still within your rights to decline a home visit - pandemic or not :)
@Louisemarshall123
3 жыл бұрын
@@HomeEducationJourneyUK Thankyou for your reply much appreciated ..x
hello, i’m in year 11 and 16 years old, i want to do homeschooling and my mum agrees as school affects my mental health. is it to late for me to homeschool? if not, what about my gcses?
@freddieparrydrums
2 жыл бұрын
I’m in the same situation
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
2 жыл бұрын
Hey - sorry for the delay in replying to you! One of the main ideas around our education journey is that learning never stops - whether you're 16, 36, 76 etc. GCSEs can be taken privately or with local collages - so there are options - but it's really down to you and your family to decide on the best route for you! 💖
The Local Authorities don’t seem to care where I live, when my mum sent ‘em out last year she didn’t even get a response
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
3 жыл бұрын
That doesn't sound great ☹️
Can the authorities stop your child being homeschooled or is it the parents choice ?
@queeniebee237
2 жыл бұрын
Your choice. It only becomes a problem when you are not teaching them much at all.
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
2 жыл бұрын
👆 totally agree with Queeniebee! 💖
Could please help we trying to home school
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
15 күн бұрын
Yes, of course - Do you have some questions?
Thank you for your info. Has the law changed since u made this vid?
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
2 жыл бұрын
Hi! To the best of our knowledge, the laws haven't changed since then - but we'd definitely recommend that you double check yourself as we're not qualified to give advice on the law :)
Hi. We just started to home educate our 9 year old daughter as the school was causing her a lot of anxiety. I was just wandering after how long the LA will want to see the progress? Thanks
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
2 жыл бұрын
Hi there! Congrats on starting your journey! Our LA likes to check in with us annually, although it had been little disrupted due to COVID.
@twolefthands385
2 жыл бұрын
@@HomeEducationJourneyUK Thank you 😊
Im 15 and have been homeschooled for 2 years and I hate it Worse thing that ever happened to me Can’t wait until I’m 18 and can catch up on all the things I missed out on
@marcus83615
2 жыл бұрын
Why u hate it
@marcus83615
2 жыл бұрын
im in public school all you miss on is toxic kids and annoying teachers and a negative environment and workflow
@HomeEducationJourneyUK
2 жыл бұрын
Hey George. Sorry to hear that - hope you find the support you need 💖