Forced Marriage and Deregistration from School

Tania Berlow made this Freedom of Information request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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From: Tania Berlow

4 December 2009

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

I refer to the comments below in bold from David Davis.

I would like to know how many cases have been recorded of girls or
boys who have been forced into a marriage and removed from the
state school system by means of deregistration in order to home
educate?

Please if there are any cases , disaggregate the number per Local
Authority involved.

I was under the impression that people who wish to remove their
children from school for the purpose of forced marriage , either
disappear to a new address or they take the child overseas for a
period of time and then return (thus making it a Children Missing
Education issue and not anything to do with Elective Home
Education.

In addition the recent reviewq into Elective Home Education by
Graham Badman found no evidence of home education being used as a
cover for forced marriage.

Sincerely

Tania Berlow

<<David Davies is on Home Affairs Select Committee and therefore
hears about the "thousands of Kurdistani girls who go missing under
the guise of being HE".
Apparently Davies had spoken to Micheal Gove that day and ...>>>

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

7 December 2009

Dear Tania

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. It has been passed to the relevant section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with. They will be in touch with you should your request need clarification.

We received your request on 07 December 2009 and will aim to respond within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely

Bruce
Information Rights
Information Management Group | Information & Technology Directorate | Foreign & Commonwealth Office
email: [FCO request email]
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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

8 January 2010

Dear Ms Berlow,

I have been assigned to deal with your FOIA request (below). As you will be aware, our deadline for responding to your request was 7 January.

I regret that, due to the Christmas and new year break, it has not been possible to meet our deadline on this occasion. I am sorry for the delay in issuing our response. We hope to be in a position to do so early next week.

Yours sincerely,

Louise

Louise Edwards
Information Handling Manager
Strategy, Communications and Training Group
Consular Directorate
7 008 0921

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From: Tania Berlow

9 January 2010

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

thank you for updating me.

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

14 January 2010

Attachment FM Prevalence and Social Response DCSF Study Final.pdf
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Attachment 100114 response to Ms Berlow.pdf
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Dear Ms Berlow,

I refer to your request, above.

Please see the attached letter and accompanying document.

Yours sincerely,

Louise

Louise Edwards
Information Handling Manager
Strategy, Communications and Training Group
Consular Directorate
7 008 0921

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From: Tania Berlow

14 January 2010

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

Thank you so much for this information. I have been wanting access
to that report for months.
Basically upon reading , I see that there was no evidence that
parents were de-registering children in order to FM but that indeed
children 'disappear' from school for a short time or just before
they turn 16. Thbis is an issue for Education Wrelfare and the CME
teams.

The evidence sought by Badman showed that they did not find any
cases of FM in the home education community

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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