National Council of Home Educators

Uniting to promote and protect the freedom to home educate in New Zealand

The National Council of Home Educators, New Zealand is an incorporated society set up to encourage, promote, inform and advance the cause of home education in New Zealand at a national level

Objectives:

Unity and strength
- To provide a forum in which home educators may unite for their mutual benefit in matters of national, political or-common interest.
- To liaise and foster relationships with home educating organizations within and outside New Zealand.

A voice for home educators
- To promote home education as a responsible, desirable and credible educational choice.
- To promote the political, legal and social conditions that support and protect home education.
- To make representation to government, government departments and others on matters determined by the National Council.

We do not promote any particular philosophy of home education. We merely adhere to the right to home educate and to the belief that the responsibility of educating our children rests with parents.

We liaise with MOE/ERO/Government and consult with members and support groups for opinions and comment in regards to specific issues. Through email lists we keep members and support groups informed of the latest developments. The danger for home educators is that because we are so diverse in our beliefs and philosophies, there is little national cohesive unity for some of the often basic precepts, the foremost being the right to home educate.

Belonging to the National Council enables you to join with others from throughout New Zealand in addressing existing standards and conditions and promoting improvements at a national level

For more information visit our website at www.nchenz.org.nz