Cambridge Home Educators' Positive Dialogue Meetings
The next meeting
Wednesday 9th April 2025
4pm for 4.30pm start, finishing no later than 6.30pm
The Children & Families Wing at The Meadows Community Centre and on Zoom (link will be published on this page closer to the time).
Please see the DRAFT AGENDA and let us know if you can make it here (anonymous).
Background
We have been very fortunate in Cambridge to have enjoyed great support for home educators from Cambridgeshire County Council, with a light-touch approach that places trust in parents. They also book and pay for a room for our Positive Dialogue Forum meetings, which now take place annually in April. It remains of vital importance that we maintain this good working relationship and take every opportunity to educate our allies there on what effective home education looks like and what support we'd like from them.
Previous meetings
Our last meeting took place on Wednesday 13 November 2024 at the Meadows Community Centre for those attending in person, and on Zoom for those attending from home. There were 66 attendees and the meeting lived up to its title - there was much positive and supportive dialogue between home educators and with the local authority. Details of older meetings will be collated here.
A note about privacy
Note the names of attendees are not recorded in the minutes and attending does not place you on the LA's register of EHE families, which is entirely voluntary and is intended for the purposes of offering us support e.g. vaccination reminders/useful signposting etc. If you have concerns though, you are welcome to attend in person or on Zoom anonymously by not giving your name/changing your display name, leaving your video off and contributing via Zoom chat function or sending your questions in advance to the email address above. A Zoom link for the meeting will be posted here closer to the time.
Wednesday 9th April 2025
4pm for 4.30pm start, finishing no later than 6.30pm
The Children & Families Wing at The Meadows Community Centre and on Zoom (link will be published on this page closer to the time).
Please see the DRAFT AGENDA and let us know if you can make it here (anonymous).
Background
We have been very fortunate in Cambridge to have enjoyed great support for home educators from Cambridgeshire County Council, with a light-touch approach that places trust in parents. They also book and pay for a room for our Positive Dialogue Forum meetings, which now take place annually in April. It remains of vital importance that we maintain this good working relationship and take every opportunity to educate our allies there on what effective home education looks like and what support we'd like from them.
Previous meetings
Our last meeting took place on Wednesday 13 November 2024 at the Meadows Community Centre for those attending in person, and on Zoom for those attending from home. There were 66 attendees and the meeting lived up to its title - there was much positive and supportive dialogue between home educators and with the local authority. Details of older meetings will be collated here.
A note about privacy
Note the names of attendees are not recorded in the minutes and attending does not place you on the LA's register of EHE families, which is entirely voluntary and is intended for the purposes of offering us support e.g. vaccination reminders/useful signposting etc. If you have concerns though, you are welcome to attend in person or on Zoom anonymously by not giving your name/changing your display name, leaving your video off and contributing via Zoom chat function or sending your questions in advance to the email address above. A Zoom link for the meeting will be posted here closer to the time.