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Question Reference #090803-000037
Question: Freedom of Information request - Elective Home education-
suitable education
Date Created: 03/08/2009 14:40
Last Updated: 03/08/2009 14:40
Status: Unresolved

Enquiry History
Customer (Tania Berlow) 03/08/2009 14:40
Dear Sir or Madam, I read that you currently have 350 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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Freedom of Information request - Elective Home education- suitable
education

Enquiry History
Response (Sam Black) 03/08/2009 14:50
Dear Tania,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

I acknowledge your request for information received on 3rd August 2009.

Your request is being considered and you will receive the information
requested within the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by
the Freedom of Information Act 2000, subject to the information not being
exempt or containing a reference to a third party.

If appropriate, the information may be provided in paper copy, normal font
size. If you require alternative formats, e.g. language, audio, large
print, etc. then please let me know.

For your information, the Act defines a number of exemptions which may
prevent release of the information you have requested. There will be an
assessment and if any of the exemption categories apply then the
information will not be released. You will be informed if this is the
case, including your rights of appeal.

If the information you request contains reference to a third party then
they may be consulted prior to a decision being taken on whether or not to
release the information to you. You will be informed if this is the case.

There may a fee payable for this information. This will be considered and
you will be informed if a fee is payable. In this event the fee must be
paid before the information is processed and released. The 20 working day
time limit for responses is suspended until receipt of the payment.

If you have any queries or concerns then please do not hesitate to contact
me.

Further information about your rights is also available from the
Information Commissioner at:
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Wycliffe House, Water Lane
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
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Yours sincerely
Customer (Tania Berlow) 03/08/2009 14:40
Dear Sir or Madam, I read that you currently have 350 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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Question Reference #090803-000040
Question: Re: Freedom of Information request - Elective Home education- suitable education
Date Created: 03/08/2009 15:12
Last Updated: 03/08/2009 15:12
Status: Unresolved

Enquiry History
Customer (Tania Berlow) 03/08/2009 15:12
Dear Nottinghamshire County Council,

I am unsure whether you intended a response to be 'below' as
indicated or whether what you have sent is merely an
acknowledgement?

Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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Re: Freedom of Information request - Elective Home education- suitable education

Enquiry History
Response (Chloe Booth) 04/08/2009 09:55
Dear Tania

Thank you for your email regarding the response you have had from ourselves.

The message you have received is an automated response that is sent to everyone who contacts
Nottinghamshire County Council via email. In your case, a Freedom of Information request will be
responded to by a Freedom of Information practioner within 20 working days.

I hope this information has made things a little clearer for you. However, if you require any further
help please do not hesitate to contact us.
Customer (Tania Berlow) 03/08/2009 15:12
Dear Nottinghamshire County Council,

I am unsure whether you intended a response to be 'below' as
indicated or whether what you have sent is merely an
acknowledgement?

Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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Question Reference #090903-000043
Question: Re: Freedom of Information request - Elective Home education- suitable education
Date Created: 03/09/2009 17:41
Last Updated: 03/09/2009 17:41
Status: Unresolved

Enquiry History
Customer (Tania Berlow) 03/09/2009 17:41
Dear Nottinghamshire County Council,

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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Question Reference #090903-000046
Question: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Elective Home education- suitable
education
Date Created: 03/09/2009 18:40
Last Updated: 03/09/2009 18:40
Status: Unresolved

Enquiry History
Customer (Tania Berlow) 03/09/2009 18:40
Dear Nottinghamshire County Council,

I have tried and tried to copy and paste the link to see if ther
eis any information waiting for me. I am unable to do this and I
consider myself not only intelligent but I also have an IQ over
130.

please help Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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Re: Freedom of Information request - Elective Home education- suitable education

Enquiry History
Response (Karen Green) 07/09/2009 13:16
Dear Tania,

Thank you for contacting us again.

I apologise for the delay in dealing with your enquiry. The Freedom of Information Practitioner for
Children and Young People's Services now has some information to present to you and will send it by
e-mail today.

You will be pleased to hear that our 'Ask a Question' software is changing this week and we hope that
it will be easier for our customers to use when following up enquiries.

Kind regards
Customer (Tania Berlow) 03/09/2009 17:41
Dear Nottinghamshire County Council,

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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Question Reference #090907-000005
Question: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Elective Home education- suitable
education
Date Created: 07/09/2009 23:11
Last Updated: 07/09/2009 23:11
Status: Unresolved

Enquiry History
Customer (Tania Berlow) 07/09/2009 23:11
Dear Nottinghamshire County Council,

am tired of getting confusing acknowledgements

Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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Dear Mrs Tania Berlow,

Following your recent enquiry, unfortunately I am not able to answer your enquiry so I have raised it with a specialist and we will get back to you in ten working days.

Alternatively, for any other information and advice on all County Council services please visit our website at http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk.

Email us at [Nottinghamshire County Council request email] or phone 08449 80 80 80. Lines are open from 8.00am to 8.00pm, Monday to Friday, and between 8.00am and 12 noon on a Saturday.

If you wish to talk to an advisor in person, please call into one of our County Contact Points, in Arnold, Mansfield, Retford, Sutton-In-Ashfield, and Worksop follow this link for their addresses http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/contac....

Yours sincerely

Catherine Hallam

Nottinghamshire County Council

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Tania

I am writing to you in reply to your Freedom of Information Act request on
Elective Home Education.

Firstly let me apologise for the delay in answering your request. When
your request was received it was sent to staff working on Elective Home
Education for their answer. Unfortunately the staff in that service are
contracted to work school term time only, which means that there was no
one available to work on your request until the school term started on 2
September. I have now received the following information from the service
in reply to your questions:

A) Data held from monitoring visit reports for the last school year
suggests that 20% of cases received more than one visit – this could be
due to the visit being an introductory meeting (where a second visit after
3 months is our usual procedure) and a secure judgement could not be made;
where recommendations to improve provision needed to be followed up;
parents choose not to engage with the LA by failing to meet appointments
or refusing to respond to written communications.

B) 1. For the last school year only 2 cases were found to be
where children were receiving no education.

2) Nottinghamshire Authority does not categorise information in the
format requested.

3) As question B2

4) As question B2

C) Our procedure for A Child Missing Education referral is that the
referral is made to the Authority’s CME Officer and that Officer will
liaise with Education Welfare Service regarding return to mainstream
education. A school attendance order will be issued as a last resort.

D) None

E) No – only in cases if Safeguarding issues arise.

F) No.

If you have any further enquiries regarding this matter please do not
hesitate to contact me.

Further information about your rights is available from the Information
Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Regards

John Allison
Children and Young Peoples Services
Nottinghamshire County Council
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Tania
Thank you for your email and supplementary question. I will reply to you
as soon as possible.

Regards
John Allison
Children and Young Peoples Services
Nottinghamshire County Council
Tel 0115 977 4850
-----Tania Berlow <[FOI #15917 email]> wrote: -----

To: John Allison <[email address]>
From: Tania Berlow <[FOI #15917 email]>
Date: 17/09/2009 03:21PM
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Elective
Home education- suitable education

Dear John Allison,

hello.

I have just spoken on the phone to admin in EHE and they said a
response was on its way- 2 minutes later here it is.However it
simply does not answer the question.

It would need to be split into categories -as i suggested or
categories as Nottinghamshire sees fit.

20% of all cases means about 70 children .

please tell me how many were initial visits and hence you are
unable to comment .How many were repeat visits /follow up visits
and whether concerns were address or concerns remain and how many
of the concerns were because parents refused all contact and did
not respond to letters and how many concerns are there merely
because parents refuse visits-i.e. they have responded to letters
and sent in educational plans . without this 20% being broken down
into categories the numbers you have given are meaningless for any
analysis. As it stands I can only input 2 children for whom there
are substantiated educational concerns which are not resolved which
is 0.6% and a far cry form the 20% mentioned.

Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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Dear Tania

I am writing to you in reply to your Freedom of Information Act request on
Elective Home Education monitoring visits. I have been told by the EHE
team that they cannot supply any further breakdown of the 20% of all cases
(i.e. 70 children) as data was not recorded for that period.
However, from records of Advisers visits, they have ascertained that 70
children received more than one visit for the period in question which
could have been for one of two reasons:-

1. They were a new case and a second visit is part of our normal
procedure, whether there are concerns or not.

2. They are a case where concerns have arisen at their annual visit.

To answer your request more fully would require accessing each of the
paper visit records for each of our "active" cases during the period
September 2008/July 2009. Some of these have now been archived and the
cost of extracting the information you require would exceed the limit of
**450 or 2** days specified in the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

If you have any further enquiries regarding this matter please do not
hesitate to contact me.

Further information about your rights is available from the Information
Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Regards

John Allison
Children and Young Peoples Services
Nottinghamshire County Council
Tel 0115 977 4850
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