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- 1. The local authority will provide the same facilities for GCSEs that school pupils have. Parents will not have to pay for them, nor spend ages searching for a place where their children can take them.
- 2. Every year or so, parents and children will meet with local authority staff in a neutral setting such as a private room in a library or other friendly place. They will all have a chat and talk about how home education is going and if there are any problems. particularly, there will be a discussion about what the local authority could do to help.
- 3. School laboratories, music rooms and playing fields will be made available to groups of home educated children.
- 4. Parents will give a rough idea of what they are hoping that their child will achieve or might be doing in the coming year.
- 5. Children will be able to sit in on some classes and take part in some activities without the need to be registered pupils at a school.
- 6. Parents will meet local authority staff without their children, once or twice a year for an informal chat. The local authority officers will be able to give them an idea of what children of the same age at school are doing and why.
- 7. Parents will be able to borrow any textbooks and other resources which they need from schools. This will be paid for by the 0.1 of the AWPU which was promised last year.
