Schoolhouse is in the process of updating its local authority links and has contacted all 32 Scottish Local Authorities seeking updated information on their home education policies, information for parents and contact details for staff members with responsibility for home education. 

We have sought the following information :

Link url to the council’s elective home education policy

Link url to the council’s information for parents re elective home education

Details of the council’s named home education contact with telephone number and email address

Since parents often report difficulty in locating the relevant information on some council websites, we decided to place all the details on our own website for ease of access. We will also be including comments from local families on each local authority page, which we believe will be a useful service for our members and other home educating consumers.

Some of our council pages  already contain relevant information, which service providers and service users may amend or update by contacting us. We are grateful to our volunteer researchers who have trawled websites and/or offered feedback on their own experience for (anonymised) publication and hope that local authorities will be able to provide the missing links.