Unreasonable behaviour by local authorities

One of the difficulties we face when trying to get some idea of a local authority's behaviour towards home educating families is that we often only hear second hand about the situation. The case may indeed be exactly as presented by the irate parent to a local group or on an Internet list, or there may be a good deal more to it than meets the eye. So I want to try an experiment.

Quite a few home educating parents come on this Blog each day and so I am hoping that we can hear some first hand examples of unreasonable behaviour by local authorities. In other words, cases where the person commenting feels that she has been badly treated by the LA and is prepared to answer intrusive questions about the circumstances in order that we might build up a rounded picture of what has happened. It would help if we could be given the name of the local authority as well. This will enable us all to get some idea of how things are working in a local authority which has supposedly behaved badly towards a home educator.

I want to try this, because in many of the cases which I see on Internet lists, I have an idea that things might not be precisely as advertised. So here is the opportunity for everybody to talk about the worst local authorities and what they have done which is unacceptable. No holds barred, guys; you can name names and give dates and see if others on here can shed any light on these LAs.