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A Freedom of Information request to Department for Children, Schools and Families by Roger Machin
The request was successful.
Roger Machin
26 June 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
Graham Badman asserts in his review of Home Education that "the
number of children known to children’s social care
in some local authorities is disproportionately high relative to
the size of the home educating population."
Please reveal the statistics Graham Badman used to make that
assertion.
Yours faithfully,
Roger Machin
M Stafford left an annotation (20 July 2009)
Goodness me, is the DCSF immune from it's own regulations, not even an acknowledgement, time for an internal review i think.
Department for Children, Schools and Families
22 July 2009
Dear Mr Machin,
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 26 June
2009. Your request was as follows:
Graham Badman asserts in his review of Home Education that "the
number of children known to children's social care in some local
authorities is disproportionately high relative to the size of the
home educating population."
Please reveal the statistics Graham Badman used to make that
assertion
I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
("the Act").
A copy of the information which we hold in relation to your request is
enclosed in the Annex.
The information supplied to you is protected by the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988. Any documents produced by government officials will be
covered by Crown Copyright. You are free to use the information for your
own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for
the purposes of news reporting. Any other reuse, for example commercial
publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder and is
regulated by the Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. You
can find details on the arrangements for re-using Crown Copyright at:
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Yours sincerely,
Sue Thomson
Independent Schools
[2]www.dcsf.gov.uk
Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2009/0058453.
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Tania Berlow left an annotation (23 July 2009)
excuse me but as there is no annex attached to this FOI , do I assume that the DCSF think that the review came with an annex that details how the statistics were arrived at?
IT DID NOT
The annex that is mentioned is now being circulated amongst home educators but this FOI did nothing to achieve the release of the annex.
Roger Machin
23 July 2009
Dear Ms Thompson,
To which annex do you refer?
Yours faithfully,
Roger Machin
Department for Children, Schools and Families
24 July 2009
Dear Mr Machin
Thank you for your email of 23 July. I am sorry to hear you have not
been able to see the information for disclosure.
I have checked my reply and the annex is attached and opens. I am not
sure how you see the reply, so have attached the annex as a word
document.
Yours sincerely
Sue Thomson
Independent Schools Partnerships Strategy Team
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Roger Machin
24 July 2009
Dear Ms Thompson,
Thank you for releasing these figures. They are, to put it mildly,
a poor basis on which to mount the claims made by Graham Badman.
These statistics are now being examined by members of our community
in the light of Mr Badman's other dubious 'evidential' conclusions.
I appreciate your co-operation in this matter and trust that Mr
Badman himself will not suffer undue stress as a result. I
understand that he is currently being protected from FOIs that will
undermine his sense of well-being.
Yours faithfully,
Roger Machin
Department for Children, Schools and Families
8 September 2009
Dear Mr Machin,
Thank you for your email dated 24 July 2009 about Home Education.
Yours sincerely,
Claire Stephenson
Independent Schools
[email address]
[1]www.dcsf.gov.uk
Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2009/0067027.
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