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In a letter to home education charity, Education Otherwise, Phillip Noyes, director of public policy at NSPCC, apologised for comments made in the Independent newspaper by a spokesman for his charity. Vijay Patel, policy adviser at the NSPCC, told the paper that some people use home education to hide abuse, and cited the Victoria Climbié case as an example. But Noyes said the comments were wrong.…