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Meeting with Conservative Party Councillors, September 9th

Posted by hedline at 06:00 PM on September 23, 2009 Comments comments (0)

Present: Cllr. Vanessa Brown, Cllr. Ted Kemble, Dani, Imran, Kate


The meeting was held to discuss the Badman Review of home education, and how the home education community could have an input to Brighton & Hove City Council’s response to the current government consultation.


Dani presented the councillors with a briefing note and a copy of the Badman Review rec...

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Meeting with Green Party Councillors, September 7th

Posted by hedline at 05:49 PM on September 23, 2009 Comments comments (0)

Present: Cllr. Rachel Fryer, Cllr. Alex Phillips, Dani, Pearl, Imran, Linda, Cintha


The meeting was held to discuss the Badman Review of home education, and how the home education community could have an input to Brighton & Hove City Council?s response to the current government consultation.


Dani presented the councillors with a briefing note and a copy of the Badman...

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Letter to Brighton & Hove councillors about the Badman Review

Posted by hedline at 02:17 AM on June 29, 2009 Comments comments (2)

HEdline has written a letter to Councillor Vanessa Brown, Brighton & Hove Council Cabinet Member with responsibility for Children's and Young People's services.  We also sent copies to the Director of children's services for Brighton & Hove Council, to all the other councillors on the Children and Young People's Trust Board, and to Adam Trimingham of the Evening Argus.


The text of our letter is below.  We will post any replies we receive on this website.

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Brighton & Hove Draft EHE policy

Posted by hedline at 09:16 AM on February 16, 2009 Comments comments (0)

We have received a draft of a new policy on Elective Home Education for Brighton & Hove Children's and Young People's Trust.


We circulated the draft to interested people in the local home education community, and have responded to it with a series of comments, suggestions, and questions.


The draft policy, together with our comments, can be seen

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Home Education Review

Posted by hedline at 10:45 AM on January 25, 2009 Comments comments (0)
The government has announced a review of home education in England.  Here is the link to their press release:
 
 
This comes hard on the heels of a full consultation on
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Notes from HE reference group meeting, 18/6/08

Posted by hedline at 06:29 PM on June 22, 2008 Comments comments (1)

Present:

From Brighton & Hove Council: Maggie Baker, Jan Lord, Sarah Barker
Home educators: Dani Ahrens, Lucy Gulland, Winnie Durdant-Hollamby.

Apologies: Venetia Carter

The discussion at the meeting was far-reaching and covered many issues.  I did not note down everything that was said, but I have attempted to summarise the main discussions and conclusions.

HEdlin...

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HEdline to meet new manager at Brighton & Hove council

Posted by hedline at 09:55 AM on June 16, 2008 Comments comments (0)
Following HEdline's request to meet a senior manager with the authority to discuss the fundamental approach of Brighton & Hove Council towards home education, Maggie Baker, the council's Attendance Strategy Manager, has been invited to attend the next meeting of the home education reference group on Wednesday 18th June.

The meeting was called with one week's notice, and the EOTAS team has circulated a
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New policy hangs in the balance as Council Head of EOTAS quits

Posted by hedline at 05:50 PM on May 18, 2008 Comments comments (0)
Barbara Benson, Head of EOTAS at Brighton & Hove City Council, has announced her resignation, and is to leave her post at the end of July.  Her resignation follows the decision to transfer the EOTAS team, which maintains contact with home educating families, as well as providing education for children who are too ill to attend school, into the Behaviour and Attendance section of the Council, which is where Educational Welfare Office... Read Full Post »

Report of meeting with Brighton & Hove Council EOTAS team, April 5th

Posted by hedline at 08:01 AM on April 18, 2008 Comments comments (0)

Below are my detailed notes from the meeting I attended on April 5th.  This is typed up from the notes I took at the time, and has been checked for accuracy by all the home educators who were present at the meeting.  Apologies for the delay in publishing this, which is due to computer problems.

I am making this report available via the HEdline website and the BHHE email...

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HEdline leaflet published

Posted by hedline at 07:54 AM on March 28, 2008 Comments comments (0)
We are proud to announce the publication of our new leaflet on home education in Brighton & Hove.

These leaflets are being distributed by vol...
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