This clampdown on home education doesn't help children

Others are in far greater need of rigorous scrutiny than those schooled at home, says Carolyne Willow

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  • Carolyne Willow
  • The Guardian, Friday 26 June 2009
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Fundamental changes to the law affecting the rights and the freedom of about 80,000 children may be sneaked into a bill going through parliament, after the review into home education by Graham Badman (Report to crack down on home schooling, 6 June).

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