HOME educators in Bromsgrove are warning that elements of a new legislative bill making its way through Parliament may erode the rights and freedoms of families and children. The town’s home education community fear that the proposed Children’s Wellbeing and School Bill will erode parental rights, children’s privacy and educational freedoms for all families, not just those who choose to home educate. “I’ll be raising them with Ministers and working with colleagues to ensure the Government better understands the home education community. A Freedom of Information request revealed that Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has not met a single home educator since taking office. A growing wave of families across the UK is rallying behind a petition to ‘withdraw the Children’s wellbeing and schools bill’ calling for urgent government debate on safeguarding children’s and families rights.