elective home education- suitable education

Tania Berlow made this Freedom of Information request to Wolverhampton City Council

Waiting for an internal review by Wolverhampton City Council of their handling of this request.

From: Tania Berlow

4 August 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I read that you currently have about 60 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

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From: Dorothy Ram
Wolverhampton City Council

6 August 2009

For the attention of Tania Berlow

Thank you for your request for information relating to elective home
education. Your request was received on 04/08/09 and we are dealing with
it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

If you have any queries about this, please contact me. Please remember to
quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Regards

Dot Ram
Pupil & Student Services

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From: Tania Berlow

3 September 2009

Dear Dorothy Ram

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

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From: Bill Hague
Wolverhampton City Council

10 September 2009

Dear Tania Berlow,

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to the above
request. We are trying to get the required information and I would hope
to have a response to you by the end of next week.

I hope this will be ok for you?

Kind regards

Bill Hague

Freedom of Information Officer

Children and young People

Wolverhampton City Council

01902 551219

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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 Wolverhampton City
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

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From: Tania Berlow

5 December 2009

Dear Wolverhampton City Council,

please provide a written response as to why this FOI has been
ignored

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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