Activism

On the last day of the year, a slightly retrospective flavour exploring one theme of my year.

Some suggestions for possible amendments to the Home Education section of the Children, Schools and Families Bill. Plus some context for why I’m thinking about this now.

Key points from the Home Education bit of the Impact Assessment for the Children, Schools & Families Bill.

I printed out the pages relevant to elective home-based education, highlighted the bits which snagged my attention, and wrote a note on each. Includes various omitted or miscalculated costs, and quite a long bit on School Attendance Orders.

An angle I hadn’t considered before on recent struggles around UK education law.

Clare M’s consultation response as a sort of guest post, plus a bit of commentary by me, and links to a few other responses.

My response to a Government consultation, on legal stuff of relevance to all children and parents.

More thoughts about remembering or losing information, this time from an activism angle.

My favourite videos and transcripts so far from the Convention on Modern Liberty, inc Philip Pullman speaking on the virtues that sustain a living and waking nation.

My thoughts on how to construct a workable team of lots of people, with particular reference to BiCon, the UK bisexuality conference/convention.

Some thoughts on the need to nurture the “next generation” of activists, influenced by Starhawk’s i.m.o. excellent book “Truth or Dare“.

This is a kind of “where I’m coming from now myself” with regard to BiCon, to fill in some missing context around my recent (and possible future) writings about it and related subjects.