KCC Plans Responses to KCC Responses from KCC What You Can Do
Welcome to KentHEPublic
This wiki has been created by Kent home educators to share information, ideas and to collaborate on projects in response to Kent County Councils Proposed Changes to its home education policy.
Our aims are:
- to educate and ensure that KCC adheres to the existing legal framework for education otherwise than at home,
- to lobby KCC to undertake a full public consultation with all home educators on all home education policy changes.
You will also find advice on writing to councillors and MPs. All actions relating to our response will be posted here and will be available for comment and for your reference if you are writing your own letters. Please feel free to browse and if you would like to join us or send in your own content, please email jslgkt1@yahoo.com, and we will send you an invite to join our action wiki.
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Things are moving pretty fast - so if you have any correspondence that you have received from KCC and wish to share it please do add it if you have a login or email me and I can add it for you.
The page KCC Plans has all the details of what KCC proposals are including the webcast of the meeting where council members discussed Children Educated at Home.
Kent County Council - Proposed Changes to HE Policy
Plans are afoot by the newly structured Education, Learning and Skills team at KCC to not only review current EHE policy but also proposals have last week been put forward to considerably increase registration and monitoring activity - to the point of creating 3 new posts in order to monitor the progress of all known home educated children in Kent once a year but also to find all unknown HE children.
Click here to read more.
The following document appeared on a couple of national HE lists and having read through it we are extremely concerned about what is about to happen here in Kent.
Next Steps:
There is some work to be done in order to stop this nonsense, educate the ELS team on how the law works with regard to EHE and also an opportunity to approach them and work on a policy with them - to state what kind of a relationship we would like to foster with them so that we can all live harmoniously, with those who want support from the LA getting it and those who don't want anything to do with them, being left alone. The one duty they do have is to consult with all stakeholders when they draft new policy. This they have not done!
We need to approach them soon, as a single group, as their work is already under way, and we want to affect the draft process positively right from the start. To get involved, carry on reading, sign up to this wiki and start writing letters. Join us if you wish to collaborate on any group responses we send to KCC.
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