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	Northants Home Education

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HOME EDUCATION ORGANISATIONS
Education Otherwise	National Home-Education charity. Membership organisation. Website also contains information on the law relating to HE; how to go about deregistering your child from school, including sample letters.
Home Education Advisory Service (HEAS)	National Home-Education charity. Membership organisation.

OTHER HOME EDUCATION WEBSITES
www.home-education.org.uk/menu1.htm	UK Home Education site containing lots of general information
www.muddlepuddle.co.uk	Aimed at families with children in the 0 - 8 range.
www.freedom-in-education.co.uk	Education e-newsletter and contact list
www.he-special.org.uk	Home Educating children with special needs

OTHER LOCAL HOME EDUCATION GROUPS
www.bedford-home-ed.org.uk	Bedford Home Educators (original site). Membership group offering organised activities.
www.fses-he.org.uk	Bedford Home Educators Full Service Extended School - Home Education Programme. A pilot scheme supported by the DfES Innovations Unit. Currently open to children of "compulsory school age" living in Bedfordshire
www.cambridgehomeeducation.org.uk	Cambridge Home Educating Families
www.ukhome-educators.co.uk	UK Home Educators (Kent) - supporting families who educate their children at home in Kent and the south east of England. Offering shared resources, activities, mailing list and friendship.
www.mkhen.co.uk	Milton Keynes Home Educators Network
www.seeheg.org	South East Essex Home Education

APPROACHES TO HOME EDUCATION
www.welltrainedmind.com	Website associated with the book. Contains some resources for Classical Education, including how to teach multiple children and how to start "in the middle" with an older child.
www.classical-homeschooling.org	Classical Education
www.triviumpursuit.com	Classical Education with a Christian perspective
http://simplycharlottemason.com/home/	Charlotte Mason
www.montessori.org.uk	Website of The Montessori St. Nicholas Charity, the main funding charity for Montessori across the UK.
www.montessori.org	An American website for the International Montessori Council.
www.steinerwaldorf.org.uk	A UK Site for the Steiner Waldorf schools fellowship. Even though it is a site for S.W. schools, it gives a bit of background information on this method.
www.awsna.org	American site on Steiner Waldorf schools. Again, it does contain some background information. The site also contains an article describing the differences between Steiner Waldorf and Montessori
http://eclectichomeschool.org/	Amecian site on Eclectic Home-schooling
www.eho.org	Amecian site on Eclectic Home-schooling

EDUCATION LAW, PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS AFFECTING HOME EDUCATION
www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1996/1996056.htm	Education Act 1996
www.opsi.gov.uk/SI/si2006/20061751.htm	The Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006
www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations	DfES summary page for current consultations
www.dfes.gov.uk/consultations/conDetails.cfm?consultationId=1442	DFes consultation on the Definition of Full Time Education in Independent Schools
www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Learning/Parents/home.htm

OTHER SITES OF INTEREST.
www.arch-ed.org	ARCH is an internet-based children’s rights organisation with a particular focus on civil rights
www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org	Campaign website regarding forthcoming consultation by the DfES on home education in the UK


PLACES TO VISIT
www.boughtonhouse.org.uk	Boughton House, Near Geddington, Kettering, Northants
http://www.wildlifebcnp.org/get_in_touch-north.htm	Lings environmental centre, Northampton
www.wow4water.net	All things water-related. Lots of education resources (multisubject) plus searchable directory of watery places in the UK.

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