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Erm yes. Except, no.
The Badman review makes some recommendations for extra support for home educators. It also dresses up some unnecessary and intrusive interventions as support. Some of the support suggested are actually things a lot of home educators would like access to, and would cost little or nothing to offer (such as access to examination centres). But Ed Ball’s response says it all.
“I accept all the recommendations in your report that call for urgent action to improve safeguards for home educated children and we will introduce these as soon as possible…We will consider how best to respond to your other recommendations as we will need to work through their implementation and resource implications.” (Source: Letter from Ed Balls to Graham Badman accepting the review. Emphasis is mine)
So, the control measures will be introduced (so much for the consultation that is currently open then) but the rest they will have to consider.
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