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Once more the British government moves against home educators and the right of all citizens to a private family life. Please sign the petition below if you think that parents should remain responsible for their own children.

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Homeedreview/

“We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to to remind his government that parents must remain responsible in law for ensuring the welfare and education of their children and that the state should not seek to appropriate these responsibilities.

We ask him to remind ministers that recent DCSF consultations have concluded that current law, when applied correctly, is sufficient to the task of protecting home educated children should parents fail in their duties, and that the law represents a satisfactory balance between protecting children and the need for privacy and autonomy in family life.

We also ask him to call a halt to the review of home education, begun in Jan 2009. Home educators have already taken part in four consultations in just over three years. New guidelines for LAs regarding Home Education resulted from one of these consultations as recently as Nov 2007 and yet we are now faced with yet another review which appears to seek to erode parental responsibilities. We ask him to remind ministers that repeated consultations infringe the BRE’s Code of Practice on Consultations, Criterion 5.

We also ask him to alert the DCSF that relations between home educators and LAs are likely to deteriorate should the state elect to intrude further upon family life.”

January 5th and the sink has ended the day clean and shiny every night and everyone is being good about putting dishes in the plastic bowl.

Last night I did a major brain dump onto a big scrap pad then processed it. Today I’ve got through about half the items that I needed to do at my desk, including one thing that had been hanging about for MONTHS. So, feeling pretty good :-)