Survey of home educated children

In Graham Badman's Report on Home Education he wrote:

"I have sought to strike a balance between the rights of parents and the rights of the child, and offer, through registration and other recommendations, some assurance on the greater safety of a number of children." (11.2)

I wished to give children the opportunity to respond to this assertion and on 12th June 2009 issued a short survey for home educated children between the ages of 5 and 25.

Instructions at the start of the survey said that, should the child need help understanding the questions or in writing their answers they could ask someone for help, but to make sure that it is was their own opinion.

Out of a total of 591 responses, 588 agreed for their answers to be passed to DCSF. For the purposes of this summary I shall only refer to those responses that are to be shared.

For brevity I have used the term "child" or "children" with no disrepect meant to those young people and young adults who answered!

See the results here