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Tania Berlow made this Freedom of Information request to Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
The request was partially successful.
From: Tania Berlow
3 August 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I read that you currently have 54 children registered as Electively
Home Educated.
Therefore for the purposes of this FOI request , these children are
either de-registered from a school or have never been registered
with a school.
A) I would like to know of these 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?
4)or whether the fact that the national Curriculum is not being
followed is causing concern?
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
From: Sarah Brien
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
5 August 2009
Your reference:
Our reference: 1490
Please ask for: Sarah Brien
Tel: 0161 770 1619
e-mail: [email address]
Date: 05.08.2009
Dear Tania Berlow,
RE: - REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000.
I acknowledge with thanks your requests for information held by Oldham
Council.
I write to advise to you that your request is being considered.
Please be advised that a charge may be applicable for your requests. We
will advise you of this in due course.
Should you have any queries, please contact me on the number above.
Yours sincerely,
Sarah Brien
Information Governance Officer
People, Communities and Society
Data and Information
Oldham Council
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham
OL1 1UG
T: 0161 770 1619
E: [email address]
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From: Sarah Brien
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
12 August 2009
Dear Tania Berlow,
RE: - REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000.
With regard to your recent Freedom of Information request, I am writing to
advise you that the team that hold the information you require
unfortunately only work term time. The team will be back in the office on
1^st September. Therefore, we can not currently process your request
until the team return, as there is no other way of obtaining the
information you require.
We can get statistics/numbers from the database that the team use, would
this be helpful?
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you,
Regards
Sarah
Sarah Brien
Information Governance Officer
People, Communities and Society
Data and Information
Oldham Council
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham
OL1 1UG
T: 0161 770 1619
E: [1][email address]
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2. http://www.ouroldham.info/
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From: Tania Berlow
3 September 2009
Dear Sarah Brien,
i have not recieved a response nor a letter indicating that there
is reason for a delay and therefore requesting an extension. please
look into the matter.
Yours sincerely,
Tania Berlow
From: Tania Berlow
7 September 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 Oldham Borough
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Elective Home Education-
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/el...
Yours faithfully,
Tania Berlow
From: Sarah Brien
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
10 September 2009
Dear Tania Barlow.
RE: - REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000.
Thank you for your email below.
The information you require is held by the Pupil Referral Unit (PRU).
Although the PRU is a Council Department, the PRU is run as a school. A
school has 20 working days, excluding school holidays to reflect its
functions, to respond to Freedom of information Requests. The PRU began
their school term on 2^nd September, therefore, the deadline for your
request is 30^th September. I apologise for not making you aware of this
within my initial response to you.
I have contacted the PRU who have advised me that they are processing your
request for information. I will endeavour to get a response to you as
soon as possible.
I would be grateful if you could advise me if you still wish to process
with your request for an internal review?
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you,
Regards
Sarah
Sarah Brien
Information Governance Officer
People, Communities and Society
Data and Information
Oldham Council
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham
OL1 1UG
E: [email address]
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From: Tania Berlow
20 September 2009
Dear Sarah Brien,
your reasons for the delay do not stand up in law. Th information
can be collated without too much difficulty considering there are
only 55 children for whom the question is addressing. To wait
another 4 weeks for an overdue response is unacceptable and also
makes the response run well over the time limit for the Select
Committee Enquiry and the consultation period on the subject. This
matter will be raised on Friday in the House of Lords as there are
only a few local authorities who have thus far been unable or
refused to answer the question.
very disappointing performance.
Yours sincerely,
Tania Berlow
From: Sarah Brien
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
25 September 2009
Dear Tania Berlow,
RE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000.
Thank you for your email below. Please see the attached response to you
Freedom of Information Request.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you,
Regards
Sarah
Sarah Brien
Information Governance Officer
People, Communities and Society
Data and Information
Oldham Council
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham
OL1 1UG
E: [email address]
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From: Sarah Brien
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
25 September 2009
Sarah Brien would like to recall the message, "Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Elective Home Education- suitable education".
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From: Sarah Brien
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
25 September 2009
Dear Tania Berlow,
RE: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000.
Thank you for your email below. Please see the attached response to you
Freedom of Information Request.
I would be grateful if you could advise me if you still wish to process
with your request for an internal review?
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you,
Regards
Sarah
Sarah Brien
Information Governance Officer
People, Communities and Society
Data and Information
Oldham Council
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham
OL1 1UG
E: [email address]
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From: Tania Berlow
27 September 2009
Dear Sarah Brien,
I have collected data from 133 out of 152 LA's so far. Oldhams
response was the only one where you have not detailed actual
amounts.
I can input that you have 12/34 concerns whihc is 31% but this also
makes you the second highest concern rate in England and you have
not given actual figures for the reasons. Most importantly , we
need an actual number of SAO's. I am raising this to internal
review .
I would like to know exactly how many concerns there are (and not
have it confused with initial visits as either there is a concern
or there is not) and also I would like to know exact reasons for
the concerns and exact number of SAO's
Yours sincerely,
Tania Berlow
From: Tania Berlow
20 October 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am still waiting for a clarification.
Yours faithfully,
Tania Berlow
From: Sarah Brien
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
21 October 2009
Dear Tania Berlow,
We are currently in the process of carrying out the internal review you requested. We hope to be in touch with a response shortly.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you,
Regards
Sarah
Sarah Brien
Information Governance Officer
People, Communities and Society
Data and Information
Oldham Council
Civic Centre
West Street
Oldham
OL1 1UG
E: [email address]
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From: Tania Berlow
28 October 2009
Dear Sarah Brien,
I have not heard why you wish to withdraw the information and can
it please be clarified whether there is actually a concern about
the less than 5 children not following the national curriculum ?
Yours sincerely,
Tania Berlow
From: Nicola Jumeaux
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
20 April 2010
Dear Ms Berlow,
Please find attached a response to your Freedom of Information Request.
Yours Sincerely
Nicola Jumeaux
Development Support Officer
Business Support Unit
Level 4 Civic Centre
0161 770 3307
[1][email address]
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From: Barbara Mulvihill
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
31 January 2012
hi, the appeal response seems to be fine when opened in pdf, the
html one doesnt seem to work though
please change the status of this request as the internal review has
been completed
regards
Barbara Mulvihill, Information Manager
Richard Taylor left an annotation (31 January 2012)
It appears there is some kind of problem, but the content is viewable in my PDF viewer: Preview on Mac OSX.
However there is no thumbnail image for pages two and three.
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Richard - WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer
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