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Elective home education - suitable education
Tania Berlow made this Freedom of Information request to South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
The request was successful.
From: Tania Berlow
4 August 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I read that you currently have 24 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: Muriel Hurst
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
5 August 2009
Dear Tanie
Your FOI Request was received by South Tyneside Council on 5th August
2009.
I now write to confirm that a decision about your request will be made
within the next 20 working days, if not sooner from the date we received
your request. Should there be any delays or discrepancies with your
request then this will be communicated to you in due course.
If you have any further queries regarding this matter then please do not
hesitate to contact me
Regards
Muriel Hurst
Clerical Assistant
Records Management Team
South Tyneside Council
Tel: 0191 424 6539
email: [email address]
This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the
named recipient and may contain sensitive, confidential or protectively
marked material up to the central government classification of
"RESTRICTED" which must be handled accordingly. If you have received this
e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail and delete
from your system, unless you are the named recipient (or authorised to
receive it for the recipient) you are not permitted to copy, use, store,
publish, disseminate or disclose it to anyone else.
E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as it
could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or
incomplete, or contain viruses and therefore the Council accept no
liability for any such errors or omissions.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise views or opinions expressed in this
email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent
those of the Council and are not intended to be legally binding.
All Council network traffic and GCSX traffic may be subject to recording
and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation.
South Tyneside Council, Town Hall & Civic Offices, Westoe Road, South
Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE33 2RL, Tel: 0191 427 1717, Website:
[1]www.southtyneside.info
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From: Muriel Hurst
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
13 August 2009
Hello Tania,
We are unable to give answers to this request until the AES come back in
early September. We will put this on hold until then.
REgards
Muriel Hurst
Clerical Assistant
Records Management Team
South Tyneside Council
Tel: 0191 424 6539
email: [email address]
This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the
named recipient and may contain sensitive, confidential or protectively
marked material up to the central government classification of
"RESTRICTED" which must be handled accordingly. If you have received this
e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by e-mail and delete
from your system, unless you are the named recipient (or authorised to
receive it for the recipient) you are not permitted to copy, use, store,
publish, disseminate or disclose it to anyone else.
E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as it
could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or
incomplete, or contain viruses and therefore the Council accept no
liability for any such errors or omissions.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise views or opinions expressed in this
email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent
those of the Council and are not intended to be legally binding.
All Council network traffic and GCSX traffic may be subject to recording
and/or monitoring in accordance with relevant legislation.
South Tyneside Council, Town Hall & Civic Offices, Westoe Road, South
Shields, Tyne & Wear, NE33 2RL, Tel: 0191 427 1717, Website:
[1]www.southtyneside.info
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From: Tania Berlow
3 September 2009
Dear Muriel Hurst,
I have still not heard anything. I understand that it is a new
term. Therefore could you please respond to me with an indication
of how long the wait may be rather than myself having to elevate
this to an internal review. thnak you
Yours sincerely,
Tania Berlow
From: Muriel Hurst
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
7 September 2009
Tania, Our Schools have only just gone back today. This matter will be dealt with as soon as possible.
Please send any further enquiries to the FOI in box and not to a private email address as this could cause further delay.
Regards
MUriel Hurst
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From: Tania Berlow
7 September 2009
Dear Muriel Hurst,
thsank you for that response. I am happy to wait. 1/3rd of all LA's
have not yet answered due to this reason.
However I have responded each toime throught the website I am using
not to a private email. could you tell me if this message is sent
to the correct place?
Yours sincerely,
Tania Berlow
From: Muriel Hurst
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
7 September 2009
Hi Tania, you should be sending to [South Tyneside Borough Council request email] because if you send them to a named person i.e. muriel.hurst@southtyneside etc and that person was on holiday/sick etc it would not be picked up until that person returned back to work.
Regards
Muriel Hurst
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From: Tania Berlow
7 September 2009
Dear Muriel Hurst,
I cannot do this any other way through this website. I can only
send a reply to the person who answers-you!
also I would send to the email address you gave in your last
message BUT the site does not allow any persona emails to be
published so I do not see it. it may be best to give me the name of
the correct person and i can then contact them direct if you cannot
sort this out. thank you
Yours sincerely,
Tania Berlow
From: Tania Berlow
20 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 South Tyneside
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: Marie Galloway
South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council
25 September 2009
Dear Ms Berlow
I apologise for the delay in responding to this matter. This has been due to the closure of the schools during the summer period.
I have now attached the Council's response to your FOI request below.
Should you still wish to appeal against the information provided then you will need to resubmit your appeal request as I consider this to be full disclosure.
Marie Galloway
Records Management Team Leader
Records Management Team
South Tyneside Council
Town Hall, Westoe Road
South Shields
Tyne and Wear
NE33 2RL
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