Schools Bill: a domestic abusers charter. How can any register be safe when we know how frequently local authorities and the DfE release data?

Schools Bill section 3: Not based in evidence and tears parenting duties from parents.

Schools Bill s3: gives local authorities the right to ask for any information under threat of fines or imprisonment: the child’s name, date of birth and home address, the name and home address of each parent of the child, any other information that may be prescribed.

The Schools Bill s3: A local authority in England must provide the Secretary of State with information of a prescribed description...relating to an individual child. 17th May 2022 ‘DfE apologises to academy finance staff over data blunder’. Is home educated children's data safe?

As well as in the whole, particular parts of the Schools Bill are hugely concerning to parents. Please consider writing to your MP, if you have not already done so.

Let's take a look at the dangerous power grab that is Part 3 Clause 48 of the #SchoolsBill bills.parliament.uk/publications/4… And be very clear from the start: this is NOT a register of only children who are not on school rolls today. It is far bigger. #SafetyNotSurveillance (Thread 1/25)

The Schools Bill : At no point has the DfE evidenced the need to register and monitor home educated children. Furthermore, around 75% of respondents to the consultation about these proposals made clear that they did not support registration of home educated children.

A child’s freedom to be home educated does not conflict with a government’s responsibility to safeguard children. We must not allow the conflation of these two things as if they are in some way linked. #wearenotinvisible #StopTheSchoolsBill

Baroness Fox of Buckley warned that this Bill does not prioritise freedom. She spoke of our CountingChildren? coalition and of the concerns about the data collection of "sensitive, personal confidential" information. The focus on safeguarding of children not in school is misplaced

Baroness Fox of Buckley also spoke of Rebecca Silverwood and concerns that the Bill would lead to an undermining of the legal rights of parents to educate their children in the way they choose. #Clause48

Thank you Jenny Jones for your thoughtful and reasoned questions.

Morning everyone is you have a CiN, CP or EHCP did you know the government are consulting with stakeholders to remove your right to home educate without an LA granting permission? Consultation ends on the 29th! #fairhearing4homeed #schoolsbill #stoptheschoolsbill

notfineinschool.co.uk/home/f/the-chi…

Education Otherwise presents the Kit Award. Has your LA officer or department gone above and beyond? Do they understand and respect home education as a different but equal choice? Nominations via single access link below: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/H75RGZG

Education Otherwise presents the Kit Award. Has your LA officer or department gone above and beyond? Do they understand and respect home education as a different but equal choice? Nominations via single access link below: surveymonkey.co.uk/r/H75RGZG