All Outputs (7)

Special issue guest editorial: Alternative education for all? (2025)
Journal Article

'It feels like we're out of the rat race': Family reflections on traumatic school experiences leading to home education (2025)
Journal Article

The rise in numbers of children experiencing school attendance difficulties in recent years makes this an important focus for UK school inclusion. Simultaneously, increases in school deregistration in favour of home education have caught media as wel... Read More about 'It feels like we're out of the rat race': Family reflections on traumatic school experiences leading to home education.

Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This panel responds to February’s review of alternative provision in England (CQC & Ofsted, 2024) and June’s BBC investigation revealing that numbers of UK children moving from schools to home education are at their highest levels since covid (Hatten... Read More about Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream.

Demystifying executive function (2024)
Journal Article

Executive function (EF) is an umbrella term for a set of complex and nuanced cognitive processes believed to be uniquely human. EF allows for planning, adaptation and self-regulation to meet personal or imposed goals. It develops from early childhood... Read More about Demystifying executive function.

Transition away from school: A framework to support professional understandings (2023)
Journal Article

The numbers of children with 'special educational needs' deregistering from UK schools to begin home-education has been increasing. This article is based on findings from a survey of 93 families of such children in England, Scotland and Wales conduct... Read More about Transition away from school: A framework to support professional understandings.

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent years have seen families of certain schoolchildren encouraged to deregister and begin home education. Ofsted (2019) considers the practice to serve a school’s purposes rather than children’s best interests. The Children’s Commissioner (2019) s... Read More about Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education.

Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices (2022)
Thesis

This study investigates the processes leading certain UK families to home educate. The research focus is: What circumstances inform the transitions of families to home education? The analysis draws upon a large-scale online survey, face-to-face inter... Read More about Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices.