People in the HE community may be aware of a family from Wolverhampton who have been forced to leave the country because of threats made by their local authority to remove their children. These threats appear to have originated simply because of the family's choice to home educate, and the fact that their son has an underlying medical condition (which is being dealt with by them and their son's specialist in a perfectly responsible manner). 

This family are now in Ireland and, not wanting to impose on anyone any further, have been camping for the past couple of weeks. Their funds are very low. Irish social services have investigated their paperwork and seem to think that the allegations against them are entirely without substance. 

The family has a case review tomorrow before the care order is lifted and it will be very much in their interests to have decent accommodation to hand. Over the weekend attempts have been made to generate a deposit for them (approximately £800 or $1,150) and we have raised half of the money required from people who many of you will know. We just need the rest! That's £400 or $575. Someone has very kindly offered to put up the full amount in advance to help the family, but it would be great if we could pay her back as quickly as possible. It's not fair that one person is burdened in such a way because of their generosity.

Please, please will you give whatever you can? Comments are closed for this post but if you drop me an email at lisa@renegadeparent.net we can make arrangements directly. It's looking like paypal payments/cheques are the best option for people. If offers exceed the amount required then I'll reduce the amounts pledged accordingly.

Readers have offered to dontate to me directly in the past and I've always refused - but if any of you are willing to give money to this poor family, you would be doing an amazing thing.

Thanks for reading and I hope that you can help.

Lisa