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| New guidelines on home education | New guidelines on home education |
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| New guidelines from the Scottish Government should make it easier to withdraw pupils from school to be educated at home. | New guidelines from the Scottish Government should make it easier to withdraw pupils from school to be educated at home. |
| Ministers are expected to recommend a six-week deadline for local authorities to decide whether a child can be taken out of mainstream education. | |
| Parents who teach their children want the period shortened to two weeks. | Parents who teach their children want the period shortened to two weeks. |
| The Scottish Parent Teacher Council has expressed concerns about adequate monitoring of home education. | The Scottish Parent Teacher Council has expressed concerns about adequate monitoring of home education. |
| Home educators said they had faced prejudice and an entrenched lack of understanding from some of the local authorities. | Home educators said they had faced prejudice and an entrenched lack of understanding from some of the local authorities. |
| I think we need to be much, much more careful about keeping a note of who is where and what is happening to them Judith GillespieScottish Parent Teacher Council | I think we need to be much, much more careful about keeping a note of who is where and what is happening to them Judith GillespieScottish Parent Teacher Council |
| Some education directors, meanwhile, have been concerned a fast decision would amount to a rubber stamp - and lay them open to legal action from children who in later life feel their education has been lacking. | Some education directors, meanwhile, have been concerned a fast decision would amount to a rubber stamp - and lay them open to legal action from children who in later life feel their education has been lacking. |
| Judith Gillespie, of the Scottish Parent Teacher Council, was worried that there was not a register of youngsters withdrawn from school. | |
| She cited a case involving five-year-old Danielle Reid, who was murdered by her mother's partner in Inverness in 2002. | She cited a case involving five-year-old Danielle Reid, who was murdered by her mother's partner in Inverness in 2002. |
| A report into the case found the authorities had lost track of the youngster when her mother withdrew her from school. | A report into the case found the authorities had lost track of the youngster when her mother withdrew her from school. |
| Ms Gillespie said: "It is fine for people to have the right to educate their children themselves - obviously they have to check that they cover all the subjects and they give them a good social interaction. | Ms Gillespie said: "It is fine for people to have the right to educate their children themselves - obviously they have to check that they cover all the subjects and they give them a good social interaction. |
| "But ever since the case of Danielle Reid, when a child was withdrawn from school and then disappeared, I think we need to be much, much more careful about keeping a note of who is where and what is happening to them." | "But ever since the case of Danielle Reid, when a child was withdrawn from school and then disappeared, I think we need to be much, much more careful about keeping a note of who is where and what is happening to them." |