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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 | ||||||
| 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 | 0 | A | ||||
| Total population of EHE children in your local authority | 141 | E(All children KNOWN during all or part of the 2008-09 academic year) | ||||
| 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 | 22 | A | ||||
| Number receiving some education but not a full time education | 32 | E (this includes children whose education is not full time AND unsuitable) | ||||
| Number receiving a full time but not 'suitable' education | 5 | A | ||||
| Number not cooperating with monitoring so no assessment can be made | 9 | A | ||||
| Not yet assessed | 0 | A | ||||
| Total number of EHE children not known to be receiving a 'suitable' education | 68 (48%) | A | ||||
| N.B.These are Actual figures as a proportion of the 141 known children, but ALL figures are "de facto" Estimated as we DO NOT KNOW if there are more childen home educated than this. | ||||||
| Table 3: School Attendance Orders (the number of SAOs issued in the past 12 months to electively home educated children) | |||||||||||
| SAOs | Number Issued | 4 | Additional Comments The typical pattern once School Attendance Orders are initiated or families are notified of the intent, is for families to move out of the area, often with no forwarding addrees. These children then become "CME" - Children Missing Education and untraceable. The figure given is for SAO proceedings commenced. 3 of these 4 Orders are currently with the LA's legal team at Stage 4 of proceedings. | ||||||||
| Table 4: NEETS (figures for the 2008 leavers cohort who were home educated) | |||||||||||
| NEETs | Number of NEET home educated leavers | 7 | Additional Comments Neet in Whole population % - figure provided by Connexions Service | ||||||||
| Total no of home educated leavers | 13 (54%) | ||||||||||
| Percentage of NEETS in whole population | 0.052 | ||||||||||
| Table 5: Missing Children (runaways) | |||||||||||
| Missing Children currently recorded | Number of children who were EHE prior to their disappearance | 18 | Additional Comments The majority of EHE children who disappear from this LA are Traveller families. Sometimes they are traced at a later date to another part of the country, and sometimes they re-appear within this authority, although they may also go abroad. | ||||||||
| Total number of missing children | 49 | ||||||||||