Understanding political agendas and the threat to EHE freedoms

This presentation seeks to provide an insight into the international conversations around education generally, and how these so often express concerns that parents may not opt in to the prevailing state controlled education systems. Increasingly, these conversations include direct criticism of parental choice when it is exercised to educate children in the context of their families.

Whilst home educators in Britain are very experienced in standing up to local authority overreach, we have largely failed to understand that a significant amount of influence on UK education policies comes from international organisations. It is my conviction that until we understand this aspect of what is happening, home educators will find themselves repeatedly having to address outbreaks of hostility and will fail to deliver a knock-out blow to the rhetoric which has persisted very evidently since the 2009 Badman Review, though it has always been embedded in state education systems.

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