Two Written Questions about home education were submitted by Laura Anne Jones on 21 June. The questions and full text of Miles’ response are below, but the key points he made are: The Welsh government has made £1.7m of funding available to local authorities for administration costs and practical support… Read More »Written Questions – Answered on 28 June 2022
Agenda item 6 of Senedd Plenary session held on 5 July saw Education Minister Jeremy Miles delivering a statement on the roll-out of the new Curriculum for Wales: “The process of embedding our new curriculum and continuously improving it in schools and settings will truly begin in earnest from September.”… Read More »Minister’s Senedd statement on launch of new curriculum for Wales in September
Opposition leader Andrew Davies tabled a written question about home education on 29 June. He asked, “How many children have been taken out of mainstream schooling and into home education for the last five years?” The answer provided on 6 July by Jeremy Miles, Minister for Education and the Welsh… Read More »Written Question – Answered on 6 July 2022
As stated in a recent news post, the Senedd Children, Young People & Education Committee is currently holding “a short focused enquiry on pupil attendance,”. Witness sessions are being incorporated into their regular meetings. Most of the inquiry’s Terms of Reference seek to understand more about persistent absence from school,… Read More »Education Minister speaks of ways of encouraging recently deregistered children back into school
The Senedd Children, Young People & Education Committee is currently holding “a short focused inquiry on pupil attendance.” Witness sessions are incorporated into their regular meetings. The majority of the inquiry’s Terms of Reference seek to understand more about persistent absence, along with strategies for encouraging pupils back into regular… Read More »Children, Young People & Education Committee – 23 June 2022
Further myths regarding home education have been perpetuated in Senedd, with the new Children’s Commissioner expressing “concern” regarding the lack of regulation and oversight of home education, whilst paradoxically highlighting a State school system where around a third of children are considered to “fail”, and emphasising that approaches in education… Read More »Children, Young People and Education Committee – 16 June 2022
In October last year we reported on a question by Sam Rowlands MS asking the Minister how he would “support parents in being able to choose the right setting for their children to learn most effectively.” Rowlands said his interest in this matter arose from being himself “home educated up… Read More »Minister hopes to implement EHE proposals in April 2023
On Tuesday 3 May, Education Minister Jeremy Miles MS, made a statement to the Senedd on school attendance. The transcript and video are available on the Senedd’s website. Most of what he said concerned the efforts being made by his Department to address “the increase in learner absence” as a… Read More »Statements by Minister Jeremy Miles – 3 & 4 May 2022
During a plenary session on 30 March, Laura Anne Jones MS, a regional member for South Wales East and Shadow Minister for Education, made a remarkable connection between peer-on-peer sexual abuse in schools and home educated children. It has to be asked if politicians will ever refrain from projecting the problems… Read More »Senedd Plenary – 30 March 2022
When the Welsh Parliament’s Petitions Committee met virtually on 24 January, item 3.2 on the agenda was Petition, P-06-1160 Require local Welsh exam centres to accept home-educated students for public exams. This petition was submitted by Claire Woolley in July 2021, and was signed by 393 people. The petition had… Read More »Petitions Committee – 24 January 2022
