‘Making sure children are safe, well and receive a good education is our most serious responsibility… However, there are concerns that some children are not receiving the education they need. And in some extreme cases, home education could be used as a cover for abuse. We cannot allow this to happen and are committed to doing all we can to ensure children are safe, wherever they are e...

Throughout its years in government - from Tony Blair's famous "Education, education, education" speech to the more recent "Every Child Matters" programme - Labour has claimed to champion the needs of the younger generation. For the 2,000 children who are sent to UK immigration detention centres every year, however, these claims ring hollow. These children are torn from their homes, their comm...

Scottish education is marred by the big gap between the results of poorer and richer children, experts warn.

The Conservatives would close the educational achievement gap between rich and poor, the party's education spokesman says.

Conservatives' policy outlines plan for academy-style independent but state-funded schools

This advert appeared in the times today. EDUCATION is about more than shaping and sorting children to meet the transient needs of business. We believe that all children deserve an enriching, life-enhancing education in a local school, irrespective of where they are born and who their parents are. Dear Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, For more than twenty years now, under the mantra of &...

What a surprise, not content with claiming that "invisible" foster parents may be abusing children, Nanny has decreed that parents who home school their children may be using it as a cover for abusing them. Children's Minister, Baroness Delyth Morgan, wants to review home education. The review will consider how local authorities can "ensure the education and well-being of children who are bei...

Home Educating families face ongoing and increasing challenges in protecting the right to educate our children without interference from the state. There have been three Government reviews into Home Education in the last four years. The most recent is extremely concerning as it alleges links between Home Education to abuse without producing any evidence. Details

We have a Minister who has no idea about education. I have run out of words to describe the shameful situation she has left us in which now confronts P6 children, their parents and teachers. The Minister of Education has abandoned children, parents and teachers to the chaos of an unregulated transfer system. We have all known that this issue was confronting us from the moment devolution was restor...

If English primary school education is "deficient" due to too much focus on maths, English and testing, why are so many children struggling to master basic English!?!