​Support, advice and information for Home Educators in the UK.
Covering all areas of the UK and all styles of Home Education
Regularly used abbreviations.
EHE
Elective Home Education.
Often used to mean the person/team at the LA that deals with Home Education.
Also known as educational social worker, Home Education inspectors, teaching monitor and any other name they fancy really!
EWO
Education Welfare Officer (also known as school inclusion officer, educational social worker) and more commonly known as truancy officers.
CME
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Children Missing Education (most commonly sent out to unknowns to ascertain how a child is educated and refers on to the EHE once they are told you Home Educate)
LA (formerly LEA)
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This is your Local Authority/council. The term LA is often used with regard to anyone within the education team, whether truancy/Home Education/welfare etc.
ELB (NI)
Education and Library Board. Within NI they are the local bodies dealing with education, including Home Education.
There are 5 ELBs in NI:
BELB (Belfast)
NEELB (North Eastern - most of Co.Antrim plus eastern part of Co.Derry/Londonderry incl Antrim, Ballymena, Ballymoney, Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Larne, Magherfelt, Moyle and Newtownabbey)
SEELB (South Eastern - most of Co.Down and some of Co.Antrim incl Ards Peninsula, Castlereagh, Down, Lisburn, Bangor)
WELB (Western - incl Omagh, Derry/Londonderry, Enniskillen)
SELB (Southern - incl Craigavon, Banbridge, Cookstown, Dungannon, Armagh, Newry, Mourne)
HE
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Home Education, Home Educator.
Sometimes referred to as Home schooling, although this an American term which is not commonly used in the UK and is used to represent the re-creation of school at home or an LA provided tutor.
FS or F/S
Flexi-schooling/Flexischooling
The term used to describe full time education, split between school and off site education, whether that be at home or forrest school etc.
DfE
Department for Education
