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Select Committee witnesses

7th October 2009 by Jax Blunt 4 Comments

If you haven’t seen the list of witnesses for the select committee the phrase read it and weep comes to mind.

From Home Education Forums

The Children, Schools and Families Committee will be taking formal oral evidence as follows:

Monday 12 October 2009 at 4.45pm

Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses:

Graham Badman CBE;

Ms Diana R Johnson MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools, and

Penny Jones, Independent Schools and School Organisation, DCSF.

The purpose of this session is to examine the evidence base for and recommendations of the DCSF commissioned review of elective home education in England.

Wednesday 14 October 2009 at 9.30am

Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses: (At 9.30am)

Jane Lowe, Trustee, Home Education Advisory Service;

Fiona Nicholson, Trustee /Chair Government Policy Group, Education Otherwise;

Simon Webb, home educating parent;

David Wright, home educating parent, and

Carole Rutherford, co-founder, Autism in Mind

(At 10.30am)

Colin Green, Chair, Families, Communities and Young People Policy Committee, Association of Directors of Children’s Services;

Ellie Evans, Head of Children Missing Education team, West Sussex County Council;

Sir Paul Ennals, Chief Executive, National Children’s Bureau, and

Phillip Noyes, Director of Public Policy, NSPCC

No Paula Rothermel. No one from AHEd, or AEUK. The two home educating parents are both men, which doesn’t strike me as desperately representative of the demographic of home educators as a whole?

If you feel like dropping a complaint in (and I really feel you should) the email address is csfcom@parliament.uk

The Members of the Committee are:

Mr Barry Sheerman (Chairman), Labour, Huddersfield

Annette Brooke, Liberal Democrat, Mid Dorset and Poole North

Mr Douglas Carswell, Conservative, Harwich

Mr David Chaytor, Labour, Bury North

Mrs Sharon Hodgson, Labour, Gateshead East and Washington West

Paul Holmes, Liberal Democrat, Chesterfield

Fiona Mactaggart, Labour, Slough

Mr Andrew Pelling, Independent, Croydon Central

Mr Andy Slaughter, Labour, Ealing, Acton and Shepherd’s Bush

Helen Southworth, Labour, Warrington South

Mr Graham Stuart, Conservative, Beverley & Holderness

Mr Edward Timpson, Conservative, Crewe and Nantwich

Derek Twigg, Labour, Halton

Lynda Waltho , Labour, Stourbridge

so if any of them are your MP, suggest that it would be a good idea to stick a flea in their ear too.

Please spread far and wide.

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  1. Merry says

    7th October 2009 at 5:53 pm

    And how the hell did that man get on there? A stitch up i fear 🙁

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  2. kellyi says

    7th October 2009 at 10:29 pm

    Email done and sent. I agree with Merry. Total stitch up!
    .-= kellyi´s last blog ..nature study – owls =-.

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  3. Caroline says

    9th October 2009 at 12:13 am

    Letters sent to both my MP (Edward Timpson) and csfcom address. Here’s hoping..!
    .-= Caroline´s last blog ..Brain Dump! =-.

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  4. Caroline says

    9th October 2009 at 12:20 am

    I’ve copied your post onto my blog too – in an effort to get the word out!
    .-= Caroline´s last blog ..Making it up � Select Committee witnesses =-.

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