Widening support for home-educating families

We were delighted to welcome back home-educating families from across Warwickshire for our second Home Education forum last week. 

We launched the forum with a session on child development and emotion coaching, followed by guest speakers from our local colleges to talk about the dedicated programmes and support they have on offer for home educated children. The SEND Assessment and Review Service spoke about support available to families of children with SEN (Special Educational Needs).

All speakers were warmly received and feedback has been really positive. Comments from the attendees included 'it was exciting to hear about what is available from colleges for home educated children' and the forums have been 'very helpful'. 

We are working to widen the scope of additional activities and opportunities that could be made available to home educating families. We have now launched a Home Education Facebook page and will be moving the forum around the county to encourage more families to connect with us. 

Currently, there are almost 500 children across Warwickshire who are educated at home.

For further information please contact Annette Firman: annettefirman@warwickshire.gov.uk

More information about home education for parents and carers is available on our webpage: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/homeeducation