Legal Support

Legal Advice

For help finding local legal advice either contact me or try these organisations:

• Family Law Association
• Jury Service Exemption Letter (pdf)
• Legal Services Commission
• The Law Society
• The Children's Legal Centre
• Civil Legal Advice with Legal Aid
• Legal Aid solicitors The Law Society
• Legal Aid Education Law

The legal situations in Scotland and Northern Ireland are different.

Official Information

Table of legal references

Articles

A selection of articles first printed in the Journal of Home Education:

• Why people should write an Educational Philosophy
• Flexi Schooling
• Deregistration - A Right in Law?

Information

• Compulsory School Age (pdf)
• Post 16 (pdf)
• Local Authority Monitoring Process (E&W)
• Deregistration Procedure
• Educational Philosophy
• Home Visits
• School Attendance Orders
• Parental and Pupil Access to School Records
• Local groups and definitions of a school

LA's responsibility to inform Parents of their right to Home Educate (primarily in England only though probably applies to Wales)