Home Schooling
Elective home education
Parents and carers have a legal responsibility
to make sure that their children receive an education. They may
choose to educate their children at home rather than at school. The
law makes the Local Authority (Bedford Borough Council) responsible
for ensuring the education given to children at home is
suitable.
There are some ways the Local Authority (LA)
supports home education:
- general advice such as curriculum,
teaching strategies, information on resources such as web sites and
the library service as well as support groups;
- particular advice on contacts around
issues of special educational needs e.g. Parent Partnership
contacts, information on requesting an assessment of needs, careers
and counselling contacts;
- additional advice for contacting other
groups or bodies about particular activities/learning sessions e.g.
Summer College and Out of School programmes;
- reports may be provided to support
parental appeals e.g. Admissions or College entry;
- personal or telephone contact to discuss
issues at any time.
Guidance notes for parents