Elective Home Education booklet - Department for Education guidelines

The latest Department for Education guidelines for parents suggests the following should also be considered when thinking about suitability:

• even if there is no specific link with the National Curriculum or other external curricula, there should be an appropriate minimum standard which is aimed at, and the education should aim at enabling the child, when grown-up to function as an independent citizen in Britain, and outside the community in which he or she was brought up, if that is the choice made
• to be ‘suitable’, education at home should not directly conflict with the Fundamental British Values defined in government guidance
• local authorities may use minimum expectations for things such as literacy and numeracy in assessing suitability
• education may not be “suitable” even if it is satisfactory in terms of content and teaching, if it is delivered in circumstances which make it very difficult to work (for example in very noisy premises), or leads to excessive isolation from the child’s peers, and thus impedes social development