Your ref:
Email to: S. Tyler
Our ref:
378-2009 Tyler
[FOI #19683 email]
Date:
02/11/2009
Dear S. Tyler
Thank you for your request for information received by Central Bedfordshire
Council on the 8 October 2009 in which you requested information about the
following:
ď‚·
Please supply the Local Authority response made to Graham
Badman’s call on 17 September 2009 for further evidence regarding
the Report into Home Education.
In response to your request, we can confirm the following:
Please note: as the response was made as part of a consultation survey
document we do not have a copy of the response we provided, however
detailed below is the information which we included in the response:
Table 3: School Attendance Orders (the number of SAOs issued in the past 12
months to electively home educated children)
Number issued
Additional Comments
SAOs
0
Referrals made to EWS for engagement
with family
Table 4: Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEETS) - figures for the
2008 leaver’s cohorts who were home educated.
Number of Elective
Additional Comments
Home Educated
leavers (EHE)
NEET
* 5 Estimated
Please note that this figure is estimated
since no accurate up to date figures for
EHE NEET was given by Connexion
Services who is currently undergoing
changes.
Also, the figures are based
only within the total year 11 of EHE and
not the total of the whole school year 11
population which we hold no information
Central Bedfordshire Council
Priory House, Monks Walk
Telephone 0300 300 8000
Chicksands, Shefford
Email [email address]
Bedfordshire SG17 5TQ
www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
on.
17
Central Bedfordshire Council is a new
unitary authority since April 2009 and
these figures refer to legacy authority.
Table 5: EHE Missing Children (runaways)
Prior to
Missing
Additional comments
disappearance
Children
0
76
Central Bedfordshire Council is
currently
a new unitary authority since
recorded
April 2009 and these figures
refer to legacy authority. Two
children have not been traced
who were EHE and have left
the area in 2008.
Please treat this as a formal response under the Freedom of Information Act.
If you wish to request a review of this response, please contact Robert Hutton
either by email [email address] or in writing to the reply
address detailed below.
If you are not content with the outcome of your appeal, you may apply directly to
the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally, the Information
Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have first exhausted our
internal appeal procedure and you should contact him within 2 months of the
outcome of your internal appeal. Further information on the Freedom of
Information Act is available through the Information Commissioner at the:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire. SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
Internet: www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Yours sincerely,
Annette Lamptey
Access to Information Officer
Tel: 0300 300 8000 Ext 42981/73275
Email: [email address]
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Central Bedfordshire Council
Priory House, Monks Walk
Telephone 0300 300 8000
Chicksands, Shefford
Email [email address]
Bedfordshire SG17 5TQ
www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
Central Bedfordshire Council
PO Box 1395
Bedford MK42 5AN
Central Bedfordshire Council
Priory House, Monks Walk
Telephone 0300 300 8000
Chicksands, Shefford
Email [email address]
Bedfordshire SG17 5TQ
www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
