Know your enemy...
"Yes I know my enemies,
They're the teachers who taught me to fight me.
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission,
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite."
--
Rage Against The Machine.
Staffordshire County Council's Elective Home Education Team is built on incompetence, lies, intimidaton and cowardice.
If you suffer the misfortune to live in the Staffordshire area and home educate I strongly suggest you take every possible measure to avoid contact with the Local Authority. Initially I thought that their shocking mishandling of our case might have been a one off and the exception rather than the rule. I hoped we had been unlucky and that they treated everyone else more decently. Further contact with them and information released from Freedom Of Information Act requests however reveal that this is not the case. They appear to have no redeeming features.
To allow Staffordshire Elective Home Education Team near my children would be neglecting my duties as a parent to protect them from possible harm.