Well, we might once have believed that there were lies, damned lies and statistics.
Now, the Badman Report gave us misrepresentations of the truth ("the number of children known to children’s social care in some local authorities is disproportionately high relative to the size of their home educating population"). And now we have the statistics to demolish these weasle words. Check these out:-
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rbrk5-GEdrUdcmfi670Mihg&gid=2
No wonder the report made claims only with regard to numbers 'known' to social services (of course, a lot of home educated children have SEN - and are automatically 'known'!). No wonder the report didn't cite the figures relating to abuse. Quite simply, the incidence is LESS THAN HALF of that within the general population!
What is so depressing is that the media have picked up the slurs pretty much wholesale. Who knows if they'll be so quick to disseminate the truth?
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