Further call for HE evidence

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please supply the Local Authority response made to Graham Badman's
call on 17 September 2009 for further evidence regarding the Report
into Home Education.

Yours faithfully,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

Thank you for your response, however the Freedom of Information
Request you refer to is not related to teh information I am
requesting.

On 17 September, Graham Badman via a DCSF email made a further call
for evidence to Local Authorities regarding the Review/Report into
Elective Home
Education.

I am requesting Northamptonshire's response to that call.

The documents requested by the DCSFcan be found at the link below:
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/
publications/documents/laeelectivehomeeducation/

Note I have inserted a space before the word 'publications' to
ensure the link is visible.

In addition Northamptonshire is listed as a respondent by the DCSF
in a FoI request:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
request/local_authorities_call_for_furth#incoming-50030

Note I have inserted a space before the word 'request' to ensure
the link is visible.

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

I made a Freedom of Information request on 7th October, which is
now overdue a response.

In not providing a response within the 20 working-day limit of 4th
November, you are now breaking the law. Therefore I am requesting
an internal review.

The information requested is below:

On 17 September, Graham Badman via a DCSF email made a further call
for evidence to Local Authorities regarding the Review/Report into
Elective Home
Education.

I am requesting your response to that call.

The documents requested by the DCSF can be found at the link below:
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/
publications/documents/laeelectivehomeeducation/

Note I have inserted a space before the word 'publications' to
ensure the link is visible.

Please note that I am NOT requesting your Public Consultation
response.

Please supply the information requested as a matter of urgency.

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

As our messages crossed, please disregard my request for an
internal review.

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

Further information has come to my attention that since your reply
stating that Northamptonshire County Council made no response to
this call for evidence.

In a Parliamentary question about Mr Badman's further call for
evidence, the DCFS provide a table which list Local Authority
responses to one of the questions asked in this data request of 17
September 2009:

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=...

You will note that Northamptonshire is listed. This supports the
DCSF's inclusion of the Authority in it list of 74 respondents:

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lo...

Therefore please supply Northamptonshire's response to this call as
a matter of urgency.

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

Further to your reply, I am aware of your letter of 18 November.

However, the DCSF state a home education population figure for
Northamptonshire of 183 on a table compiled from "each local
authority that responded to the questionnaire on home education
distributed in September."

I would therefore ask from where the DCSF obtained this figure of
183?

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

Regarding the following comments:

"After checking with the relevant department we are unable to
comment upon information held by the DCSF, however we do believe
that this information was provided to the DCSF via an on-line
questionnaire which did not give any option to print or save the
responses provided."

Your colleagues may be thinking of the online Public Consultation
document which was not saveable. I am NOT requesting this response.

I can assure you that the forms on which this information would
have been submitted were Excel spreadsheets and, as such, were both
printable and saveable.

Here is the link to that spreadsheet:

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters...

Please could you ask them to recheck their records.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

Thank you for your reply.

The link can be found here (third email down entitled: Elective
Home Education (EHE) review - request for supplementary data):

http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters...

The documents linked through from that message can be found here:
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters...

I am afraid I don't know to whom the email was addressed.

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

Please could you request this information from the DCSF as they
would release it to the Local Authority but not to an individual.

Many thanks

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler

Dear Freedom of Information,

The DCSF are responding very slowly to requests made by individuals
- months in some cases.

I would therefore repeqt my requesust to you to obtain the
information I requested from you.

Yours sincerely,

S Tyler