Whose children are they?

Calls to change and strengthen regulatory policy around home education are philosophically based on the vexed intersection of parental, state and children’s rights. Children’s rights, home education and the increasing remit of the state to intervene in families have grown in parallel importance over recent decades. Increasingly, political arguments are based, not on educational arguments but about who controls family and children's lives. This talk considers this changing social and political context. It also explores some specific articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and how these are deployed in arguments around home education.

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