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| REVIEW OF ELECTIVE HOME EDUCATION IN ENGLAND - SUPPLEMENTARY DATA | ||||||
| PLEASE IDENTIFY THE NUMBER OF HOME EDUCATED CHILDREN WHO CURRENTLY FALL INTO THE BELOW CATEGORIES AND RETURN TO LISA WHITE VIA THE | ||||||
| [email address] | MAILBOX BY COP 1 OCTOBER 2009 | |||||
| * PLEASE INDICATE FOR EACH DATA ITEM IF THESE FIGURES ARE ACTUALS OR BASED ON ESTIMATES | ||||||
| Table 1: CPR3 Category (Referrals, Assessments and Children and Young People who are the subject of a Child Protection Plan, England | ||||||
| Table 2: Inadequate Education (the number of electively home educated children of compulsory school age not receiving a suitable education) | ||||||
| Table 3: School Attendance Orders (the number of SAOs issued in the past 12 months to electively home educated children) | ||||||
| Table 4: NEETS (figures for the 2008 leavers cohort who were home educated) | ||||||
| Table 5: Missing Children (information about missing children that identifies their last known education setting, total number that were electively home educated) | ||||||
| Table 1: CPR3 Category (Referrals, Assessments and Children and Young People who are the subject of a Child Protection Plan, England) | ||||||
| LA Name | ||||||
| BIRMINGHAM | ||||||
| CPR3 Category | Number of EHE Children | Actual/Estimate (A or E) | ||||
| Number of home educated children in your authority of statutory school age who were the subject of a child protection plan at 31 March 2009 | 1 | A | ||||
| Total population of EHE children in your local authority | Not known but 303 are currently registered following deregistration from their schools, | A | ||||
| Table 2: Inadequate Education (the number of electively home educated children of compulsory school age not receiving a suitable education) | ||||||
| Category | Number of EHE Children | Actual/Estimate (A or E) | ||||
| Number not receiving any education | 3 | E - this is very difficult to determine. Based on the current definition of a 'suitable education' given within the guidance for local authorities, all but 3 children currently registered would appear to be in receipt of some form of education. Even the 3 quoted may be in receipt of education but this cannot be determined as parents are determined not to cooperate with the local authority. | ||||
| Number receiving some education but not a full time education | Unknown | E - difficult to determine. Under current guidelines the "measurement of 'contact time' is not relevant to elective home education" and, "home educating parents are not required to…..have a timetable…..set hours during which education will take place". | ||||
| Number receiving a full time but not 'suitable' education | 51 | A - these children are in receipt of some education but parents recognise that it is judged to be unsuitable and are cooperating with support given by the EHE Adviser to improve. | ||||
| Number not cooperating with monitoring so no assessment can be made | 3 | A - (as in 'Number not receiving any education' above. | ||||
| Not yet assessed | 8 | A | ||||
| Total number of EHE children not known to be receiving a 'suitable' education | 62 | A | ||||
| Table 3: School Attendance Orders (the number of SAOs issued in the past 12 months to electively home educated children) | |||||||||||
| SAOs | Number Issued | 0 | We are currently processing 3 SAOs. | ||||||||
| Table 4: NEETS (figures for the 2008 leavers cohort who were home educated) | |||||||||||
| NEETs | Number of NEET home educated leavers | 28 known | The Connexions service is notified of all registered home educated leavers during the final term of school year 11 however, parents do not always take up the offer of support and wish to remain outside the scope of services available. | ||||||||
| Total no of home educated leavers | 80 | ||||||||||
| Percentage of NEETS in whole population | 9.24% | ||||||||||
| Table 5: Missing Children (runaways) | |||||||||||
| Missing Children currently recorded | Number of children who were EHE prior to their disappearance | 13 | N.B: none of the home educated children currently registered as 'missing' are 'runaways'. All have left their known address with their families to a destination unknown. These (13 children) are registered on the CME database and are subject to agreed tracing procedures. | ||||||||
| Total number of missing children | 13 | ||||||||||