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...families continues to grow, how can professionals improve how they work with parents who may have had a negative experience of previous local authority support?...Find out more about The Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. Background Elective home education is becoming an increasingly popular choice for parents who are seeking a more suitable...

...family, peers, teachers, media – encouraging them to conform to certain models of masculinity. One said: “There is pressure everywhere to tell you what man you should be.” Another added: “You have to be a young man who’s got a nice house, who’s got a nice car, who’s got a family with kids, who’s got a good job.” At the same time, many felt that these...

...families within and across national and international contexts, are not a homogenous group in terms of demographics, motivations and practices. Rather, home education encompasses a broad spectrum of educational philosophies, methods, curricula, styles and approaches (Fensham-Smith, 2020). For these reasons, it is not possible to determine whether home-schooling is either...