Dear Editor,
I am writing with respect to Nicola Laver’s piece on education at home, or as she or a sub-editor have inflated it, ‘Bill may force reporting on Sunday School attendance’ en February 2025.
The article states the bill’s aim is to improve the safeguarding of children and raise educational standards, neither of which should be controversial aspirations. However the article conveys quite a lot more ‘heat’ than ‘light’ on the subject by quoting from Christian Concern and Christian Institute personnel to give concerns over ‘echoes of totalitarian states’, a subheading which does not appear to be a quote from anywhere else in the article.