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A White made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Children, Schools and Families
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From: A White
6 March 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
With reference to the elective home education review being led by
Graham Badman, please provide details of the estimated overall cost
to the Department of conducting this exercise.
Please also indicate how much of the overall budget has been
allocated for the following purposes:
- payments (including expenses) to the NSPCC
- payments (including expenses) to other members of the independent
review team
- payments (including expenses) to independent consultants on
elective home education
- payments (including expenses) to 'representative' home education
organsations
I am not seeking details of payments to individuals, merely the
aggregate information.
Thank you in advance.
Yours faithfully,
A White
Department for Children, Schools and Families
6 March 2009
Dear Mr/Ms White
Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible (where a response is required). For information, the
departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses
should be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are
requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2009/0021130
Thank you.
Central Allocation Team
Public Communications Team
Tel: 0870 0002288
www.dcsf.gov.uk
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Department for Children, Schools and Families
6 March 2009
Thank you for your request for information about the Home Education
Review. Your request was received on 6 March and I am dealing with it
under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible. For information, the
Departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses should
be sent within 15 working days or 20 working days if you are requesting
information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me. Please
remember to quote our reference number in any future communications.
Yours sincerely
Jo Bell (Mrs)
Independent School Partnership and Strategy Team
Tel: 01325 392701
[email address]
Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2009/0021130.
Department for Children, Schools and Families
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From: A White
7 April 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Reference number: 2009/0021130
My request under the Freedom of Information Act dated 6th March
2009 is now overdue a response.
By law, a response should have been sent to me by 6th April 2009,
and no correspondence has been received to indicate any reason for
this delay.
I am therefore requesting a response by return and, if this is not
forthcoming, an internal review.
Yours sincerely,
A White
Department for Children, Schools and Families
8 April 2009
Dear Sir/Madam
I am replying in response to your email dated 7 April advising that we
have not yet responded to your request for information under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000.
I apologise for not yet being able to reply to your request. However, I
can confirm that your request is being considered and that a response will
be sent as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Josephine Bell (Mrs)
Independent Schools
[email address]
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Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2009/0032337.
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Department for Children, Schools and Families
6 May 2009
Dear Mr/Ms White ,
.
I am very sorry that you have not yet received a response to your request,
received 6 March, under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act)
seeking information in relation to the review of home education.
The Department aims to respond to all requests under the Act within 20
working days and normally does so in at least 90% of cases. I am aware
however that this limit has now been exceeded, in your case by a
considerable margin. This has been due to a combination of circumstances
beyond our control, leading to a bottleneck of requests. I would however
like to assure you that the Department takes its statutory
responsibilities under the Act very seriously and is always concerned
about delays in responding to individual requesters, recognising
the inconvenience and frustration which this may cause.
The Department has now set in place special arrangements to respond to all
requests about the home education review which are still awaiting a reply,
and I anticipate that it will be possible get a substantive response to
you by 29 May. If there are any further delays I shall write to you again
to let you know why.
Once again please accept my sincere apologies for the delay.
Yours sincerely,
Josephine Bell
Independent Schools Partnerships and Strategy Team
[email address]
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M Stafford left an annotation ( 7 May 2009)
By this time the response will be almost two months late! Not a good example.
Department for Children, Schools and Families
19 May 2009
Dear Mr/Ms White,
Thank you for your email of 6 March requesting financial information
relating to the home education review. Please accept my apologies for the
delay in replying to you.
The original estimate for the total cost of the review was -L-72,000.
None of the budget was allocated for the expenses of NSPCC, other members
of the independent review team or independent consultants. We invited
organisations representing home education groups to claim expenses where
they had to travel to meet with Graham Badman, the leader of the review.
Yours sincerely,
Iain Campbell
Independent Schools and School Organisation Division
[email address]
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Francis Irving left an annotation ( 2 June 2009)
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P Searle left an annotation (24 August 2009)
In response to an earlier FOI request (made by A White) a payment of http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bu... which indicates that the original estimate for the total cost of the review was £72,000. . Was there any 'non-payments' made to any member of the Badman Review panel during 2008 to 2009 (directly or indirectly) by the DCSF at this time. This relates to charitable organisations of which the DCSF is the main stakeholder.
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Augustin Moga left an annotation (13 April 2009)
Will they keep issuing new numbers for each follow-up e-mail?
See this thread ( http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co... ) for something similar.
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