Is Home Education damaging to children’s welfare?

Record numbers of parents are choosing to take their children out of mainstream education. Numbers have rocketed post-pandemic.

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00:00Steve, you've spent much of your life working in education, are you surprised that so many

00:06people are choosing to educate their children at home?

00:10Well, it's an interesting one and again, I think there's a connection to lockdown because

00:14of course some parents are really interested in their children's education and of course

00:19they felt that they got the taste for it and perhaps they believe that they can give them

00:26an individualised experience.

00:28Clearly, this is often what the incentive for private education is about, smaller class

00:33sizes and as I say, that personalised treatment.

00:39Every parent must make their decisions.

00:40I find it slightly worrying, indeed, maybe I should say more than slightly worrying.

00:47It's something which of course, it may work for a small number of pupils but I think the

00:52fact is that pupils lose out, or children, that's what they are, children lose out on

00:57the social interaction.