EHE department- suitable education

Tania Berlow made this Freedom of Information request to Derbyshire County Council

Waiting for an internal review by Derbyshire County Council of their handling of this request.

From: Tania Berlow

5 September 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

For the purposes of this FOI request , EHE children are either
de-registered from a school or have never been registered with a
school.

A) I would like to know of the EHE children, how many are there
where the visiting person has concerns that a 'suitable' education
is being provided?

B) I would also appreciate it if this information could be broken
down into categories: 1)whether they feel that no education is
taking place? 2)whether they feel that the philosophy of education
is inadequate -for example in the case of autonomous or child led
learning , that particular child is not appearing to be learning
'enough'? 3)whether there are concerns because the family have not
implemented a structured approached and please explain what this LA
considers an unstructured approach ? 4)or whether the fact that the
national Curriculum is not being followed is causing concern? 4)
parents have not responded to LA initial contact 5) poarents
responded and no concerns about educaiton but the parents do not
accept a visit
6) any other reason

C)If there are children in the above 4 categories , please indicate
if further steps are being taken- for example , issuance of a
School Attendance Order?

D)Please also indicate if any any Education Supervision Orders are
currently in court for this population.?

E) Please can you confirm whether any children who fit into the
above categories of concern about 'educational provision
suitability' would also therefore be referred to Social Services?

F) Lastly is it possible in your Local Authority that Social
Services are involved with a family but that The EHE department do
not know of this involvement (This involvement would be on an
on-going basis rather than a one off referral which is found to be
of no genuine concern)

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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From: Contact Centre (Chief Executives)
Derbyshire County Council

7 September 2009

Dear Tania,

Thank you for contacting Derbyshire County Council. I have forwarded
your email onto our Freedom of Information Officer for reply.

Regards

Becky
Call Derbyshire Administrator
Call Derbyshire
08456 058 058

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From: Tania Berlow

4 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Derbyshire County
Council's handling of my FOI request 'EHE department- suitable
education'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/eh...

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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From: Tania Berlow

4 December 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

It is way over the time limit. Is it rteasonable that the public
should be ignored in this manner. Who pays the wages?

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Derbyshire County
Council's handling of my FOI request 'EHE department- suitable
education'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/eh...

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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Tania Berlow left an annotation ( 4 December 2009)

3 months on and still waiting for a scrap of an answer- nothing at all so far. Grrrr

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From: Contact Centre (Chief Executives)
Derbyshire County Council

4 December 2009

Dear Tania

Thank you for contacting Derbyshire County Council. I have forwarded
your email to our Freedom of Information team for reply.

Regards

Vanessa
Call Derbyshire Administrator
Call Derbyshire
08456 058 058

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From: Tania Berlow

4 December 2009

Dear Contact Centre (Chief Executives),

the email which reads that my email has been forwarded never seems
to get to the FOI department. Please ensure that someone contacts
me . It has been 3 months since my first request and so far not a
single part of my question has been answered.

Out of all 152 Local Authorities 3 have refused to answer and have
given their explantion and ONLY Derbyshire has not answered at all
nor given any explanation.

Very poor show Derbyshire.

<<Thank you for contacting Derbyshire County Council. I have
forwarded
your email to our Freedom of Information team for reply.>>

that my query has been forwarded to Derbyshire

Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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From: Contact Centre (Chief Executives)
Derbyshire County Council

7 December 2009

Dear Tania,

Thank you for contacting Derbyshire County Council.

I have forwarded your email to Rajat Jain who is our Freedom of
Information Officer requesting that he respond to you directly.

Regards,

Tracey.
Call Derbyshire Administrator.
Call Derbyshire - 08456 058 058

Please address all replies to [email address]

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