Home Education - Quarterly conference budget

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

The request was partially successful.

From: Matt Hupfield

4 June 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Staffordshire County Council hosts a quarterly 'Midlands Regional
Local Authority Home Education Conference'.

For the last year (i.e. the last four conferences) please provide
details of the budget and costs for each conference.

Please specify figures for the allocated budget for each conference
and the actual cost of each conference.

Please provide in as much detail as you have available a breakdown
of the costs of each conference.

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

22 June 2009

Dear Mr Hupfield,

The "Elective Home Education Forum" is an event hosted by Staffordshire
LEA on a termly basis. The cost of hosting these events is recovered from
the attendees. The details of the costs of the last 4 events are given
below:

Date Cost of Hosting
24^th June 2008 £1,330
11^th November 2008 £1,224
24^th March 2009 £1,512
17^th June 2009 £1,404

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

In the first instance if you have any comments relating to how your
request has been handled by our authority, please contact Philip Jones,
Head of Information Governance, Information Governance Unit, 1a Bailey
Street, Stafford, ST17 4BG.

If you have any further comments relating to how your request has been
handled by our authority, please contact the Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours Sincerely,

Lian Rebecca Stibbs

Access to Information Officer

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From: Matt Hupfield

28 June 2009

Dear Stibbs, Lian (L&G),

Please confirm that the council holds no more detailed information
on the costing of these conferences than the single figures you
have already released.

Please confirm that 100% of the cost of these conferences is
recovered from the attendees.

Yours sincerely,

Matt Hupfield

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

29 June 2009

Dear Mr Hupfield,

I can confirm that Staffordshire County Council do not hold any further information.

The full cost is recovered from attendees.

Yours sincerely,

Lian Rebecca Stibbs
Access to Information Officer

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From: Matt Hupfield

29 June 2009

Dear Stibbs, Lian (L&G),

Thank you for the prompt reply.

Yours sincerely,

Matt Hupfield

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From: Matt Hupfield

29 June 2009

Dear Stibbs, Lian (L&G),

In relation to my request about the budget for the home education
conference/forum could you know please provide the following
information:

- A list of the attendees of the last 4 conferences (Jun 08, Nov
08, Mar 09, Jun 09).

- Confirm whether the forum is open to anyone to attend or as I
suspect by invitation only. If it is an invitation only event
details of the criteria used to decide who should be invited to
each event.

- For each of the last 4 conferences; details of the themes/topics
for each conference, copies of any notes made before, during or
after the conference and copies of any minutes from each
conference.

Yours sincerely,

Matt Hupfield

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

23 July 2009

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Dear Mr Hupfield,

Please find attached a list of attendees for the last four conferences.
The data provided indicates the number of delegates attending from the
stated authority.

With regard to your request for confirmation of who can attend, I can
confirm that this is not a valid request under the Freedom of Information
Act (s1 (a)) as the information is not held by the Authority.

Please find attached the agendas for the last four forums.

The release of any minutes taken may be subject to a Freedom of
Information Act exemption and therefore a Public Interest Test will be
held. In accordance with the County Council procedures a panel will decide
if this information is subject to the exemption and if the information
will be withheld, or if the information will be released.

No inference should be made from this letter that we currently hold the
information that has been requested.

The Public Interest Test panel will meet in due course and I will contact
you with the outcome as soon as possible after the panel has reached a
decision.

In the first instance if you have any comments relating to how your
request has been handled by our authority, please contact Philip Jones,
Head of Information Governance, Information Governance Unit, 1a Bailey
Street, Stafford, ST17 4BG.

If you have any further comments relating to how your request has been
handled by our authority, please contact the Information Commissioner,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely,

Lian Rebecca Stibbs

Access to Information Officer

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

13 August 2009

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Dear Mr Hupfield,

In my email dated the 23/7/09, I stated that a public interest test is to
take place. I am writing to keep you informed of the timescale. As part of
the PIT opinion needs to be sought from third parties. As many EHE staff
work during term time, I can confirm that in order to receive their
response the public interest panel will now meet in October.

Yours sincerely,

Lian Rebecca Stibbs

Access to Information Officer

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From: Matt Hupfield

27 August 2009

Dear Stibbs, Lian (L&G),

Thank you for keeping me up to date with the timescale of the PIT.

I find it more than a little odd that most staff working on the
Elective Home Education team who by definition work with children
not attending school (and as such are educated all year round) only
work term time.

As an additional request could you please provide me with the
details of the working days and times of the EHE team.

Yours sincerely,

Matt Hupfield

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From: Lantsbery, Catherine (L&G)
Staffordshire County Council

8 September 2009

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Dear Mr Hupfield

Please see attached my letter relating to your most recent request for
information.

Yours sincerely

Catherine Lantsbery

Access to Information Manager

Information Governance Unit

Law and Governance Directorate

Staffordshire County Council

1a Bailey Street, Stafford, ST17 4BG

Tel: 01785 278387

Fax: 01785 278362

E-Mail: [1][email address]

Web: [2]www.staffordshire.gov.uk

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From: Lantsbery, Catherine (L&G)
Staffordshire County Council

29 October 2009

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Dear Mr Hupfield

Please find attached the response to point 4 of your most recent request.

Yours sincerely

Catherine Lantsbery

Access to Information Manager

Information Governance Unit

Law and Governance Directorate

Staffordshire County Council

1a Bailey Street, Stafford, ST17 4BG

Tel: 01785 278387

Fax: 01785 278362

E-Mail: [1][email address]

Web: [2]www.staffordshire.gov.uk

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