{"id":18516,"date":"2019-07-17T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18516"},"modified":"2019-07-17T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T11:05:53","slug":"home-education-monitoring-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/home-education-monitoring-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Better home-education monitoring by British government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The British government will increase its inspection and attention towards home-schooling<\/strong> to ensure children get a high-quality education. Several organisations have proposed that local authorities create and maintain registers for home-schooled children. The general idea is to give the minors and their families more support if they need it.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anntoinette Bramble, the chairperson of the Local Government Association (LGA), has spoken out, saying that <strong>overall children are getting a good education at home, but there are still minorities that need to be looked after.<\/strong> Not all kids get to be schooled in a secure environment and ensuring this should be a priority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Better monitoring of home-education\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a survey made by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/adcs.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Association of Directors of Children&#8217;s Services (ADCS)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, there are approximately fifty-eight thousand (57,873) home-schooled children across one hundred and fifty-two (152) local authorities in England. The problem comes when <\/span><b>children are said to be home-schooled but in fact, are attending illegal schools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That can lead to exposure to a dangerous environment and children getting an improper education.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The LGA is bothered by the<\/span><b> lack of power that councils have<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to ensure that young people are getting a high-quality home-education in a safe and suitable learning setting.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ADCS also pointed out that the register needs to be more sophisticated and not only focus on children being educated during school hours because another<\/span><b> growing issue is that illegal education institutions are still operating during unsociable hours.\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children need support, and the government has to make sure they are getting the best possible education. Unfortunately, children\u2019s services are going to be facing three million (3.1m) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/education-funding-crisis-in-england\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">shortfall in the capital<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by 2025, and it is crucial for authorities to take precautions and get secure funding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government will increase its inspection and attention towards home-schooling to ensure children get a high-quality education. Several organisations have proposed that local authorities create and maintain registers for home-schooled children. The general idea is to give the minors and their families more support if they need it.\u00a0 Anntoinette Bramble, the chairperson of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,16],"tags":[52,228,699,860],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}