By Michael Charles
May 13, 2025
๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ต. ๐ ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏโ๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ด ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ข๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ 30 ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ด๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ. ๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฎ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ.
If passed in its current form, this Bill will change the relationship between family and the state for ever. It wonโt just affect home educators, SEND families, and religious communities. It will affect us all. Parents, grandparents, future parents, and anyone who believes in democracy should be deeply concerned.
There are five reasons why you should care:
- Parents could be criminalised for protecting their child
The Bill introduces harsher fines and even prison sentences if the state disagrees with your educational choices. Today: freedom. Tomorrow: prosecution.
- Councils will have the power to veto your decisions
The Bill proposes that parents of children with disabilities or under a child protection investigation must seek local authority consent to home educate or even change schools. The council โ not the parent โ would decide what is โbestโ for your child. David Wolfe KC spoke out against it.
- The most intrusive surveillance powers ever proposed.
The Bill introduces a compulsory home education register that demands personal details about families and anyone who educates your child. Leading human rights KC Aidan OโNeill has called this โstate surveillance of family life on an unprecedented scaleโ.
- Religious freedoms will be eroded
Strictly Orthodox Jewish yeshivot could be forced to register as independent schools and deliver state-mandated secular education. Professor Mark Hill KC has said this directly breaches Article 2 of Protocol 1 ECHR.
- Disabled children and SEND families will be the first to suffer
I have represented more families in SEND disputes than I can count. Councils lose 98 per cent of appeals at Tribunal. Yet this Bill proposes giving them even more power to deny parental choices. It risks further isolating the very children society should protect most.
๐๐๐ฎ ๐๐ค๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐๐จ ๐ข๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ง ๐ฉ๐ค ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช?
You may not have children today. You may have grandchildren tomorrow. You may have a brother, sister, friend or neighbour with children. You may otherwise be a concerned citizen pondering as to what else will come next for us all.
Why do I say it is dangerous? The answer is simple. History teaches us that liberty is rarely taken all at once. It is taken piece by piece, always under the comforting guise of โsafetyโ. Once these rights are gone, they are almost impossible to recover. Because democracy depends on freedom, and freedom depends on clear limits to state power. There must always be a proper separation between the state and the family. The moment the state claims a right to override the judgement of loving parents, or to criminalise them for making lawful choices, the line between citizen and subject begins to blur. That distinction between real parenting (rooted in love, knowledge, and day-to-day care) and corporate parenting (rooted in bureaucratic systems and distant decision-making) is vital to the soul of any free nation. If we lose that, we lose the essence of democracy itself.
Do not be silent. Silence is complicity.
๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐ฃ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐ค?
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