Grinding down dissent or making work?

Hot on the heels of their last inquiry into Home Education, the government are launched another. Home Educators are not amused.

Education Otherwise and home educating families have contributed to three
major consultations on the guidance to local authorities since 2005. The latest
guidance was issued in autumn 2007.

I have this pet theory that much of the apparent campaign against the citizen is actually just bureaucracy run amok. This looks like more of the same.