Home Education - LA staff training

Matt Hupfield made this Freedom of Information request to Staffordshire County Council

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From: Matt Hupfield

4 June 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide details of all, internal and external, training
courses and/or programmes relating to home education available to
local authority staff who are involved in any way in working with
home educated children and their families.

For each course please specify whether or not it is mandatory for
these staff to undertake.

Yours faithfully,

Matt Hupfield

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From: Stibbs, Lian (L&G)
Staffordshire County Council

5 June 2009

Dear Mr Hupfield,

I acknowledge receipt of your request. A response be released within the
statutory deadline.

Yours sincerely,

Lian Rebecca Stibbs
Access to Information Officer

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From: Stibbs, Lian (L&G)
Staffordshire County Council

8 June 2009

Dear Mr Hupfield,

Training sessions available to staff can be found via the following link.
www.qls.org.uk . Some sessions may only be available to schools. Please
find attached the training sessions specifically offered to the Elective
Home Education Team. The team additionally may request to attend external
training; however, we do not hold information relating to the type of
training provided by external providers.

EHE staff are all required to have CAF awareness and level one training
and then to attend safeguarding Level one training this is mandatory for
staff working directly with children and young people in Staffordshire
[1]http://www.staffordshirechildrenstrust.o.... All other
training is optional.

If you have any queries or require any further information please do not
hesitate to contact me.

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request has been handled by our authority, please contact Philip Jones,
Head of Information Governance, Information Governance Unit, 1a Bailey
Street, Stafford, ST17 4BG.

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Yours Sincerely

Lian Rebecca Stibbs

Access to Information Officer

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Matt Hupfield left an annotation (28 June 2009)

Staff's EHE team is all about welfare. No mandatory training in regard to home education (or any form of alternative education). At all.

Gives the impression someone with no knowledge or respect of home education could work for, or co-ordinate, the EHE team. Heaven forbid that might ever be allowed to happen...

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Matt Hupfield left an annotation (14 July 2009)

Staffordshire Action for the Protection of Home Education:

http://www.theartofsurvival.co.uk/homeed...

Home Education Support, Advice and Resources in Staffordshire.

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