Home Education and abuse - statistics

Dear Mr Denton,

Freedom of Information Request

I refer to your request for information which has now been considered and
the information requested is enclosed.

If you have any concerns or queries about the handling of your enquiry
then please contact the Records Manager & Data Protection Officer, Royal
Borough of Kingston upon Thames, High Street, Kingston upon Thames, KT1
1EU, telephone 020 8547 5757, Email: [1][Kingston upon Thames Borough Council request email]

Further information on the Act is available from the Information
Commissioner at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Telephone: 01625 545 700 [2]www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

In the request that you submitted, you asked for the following
information:

A. The number of persons in the local authority of compulsory school age
who are, or claimed to be, electively home educated and who have been
either suspected or found to be involved in child abuse, neglect, forced
marriage, sexual exploitation or domestic servitude.
B. How many (if any) Serious Case Reviews or Joint Area Reviews have
reported with respect to home educated children in the LA.

This information is enclosed.

A. No children or young people meet this criteria.
B. No Serious Case Reviews have been reported for home educated children.
Joint Area Reviews do not deal with individual cases.

If you feel that there is any further information that I can provide,
please let me know.

Yours sincerely,

Katharine Thorn
Information Officer, Partnerships and Workforce Development,
Learning and Children's Services, First Floor, Guildhall 2, Kingston upon
Thames, KT1 1EU
Tel: 020 8547 5247
Fax: 020 8547 5235
Email: [3][email address]

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