Number of electively home educated children and young people

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Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL

Telephone: 023 9268 8482

Fax: 023 9284 1327

Our Ref: FOI2009419

Your Ref:
Date: 02/07/2009

Dear Lynn Daley,

I acknowledge your request for information received by Portsmouth City
Council 02/07/2009. We are treating this as a request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. I enclose a copy of your original request.

1. Number of electively home educated children known to your LA.

2. Number of electively home educated children who have a care plan

in place due to concerns of abuse.

3. Total number of all children in your LA

4. Total number of children who have a care plan in place due to

concerns of abuse.

I regret I am unable to service your request in its present form, as I
require further information from you.

Please can you supply a time frame for your request i.e. the last academic
year or the last 12 months as an example.

Q3: please can you clarify if you mean total population of children in our
LA, Education or Social Care?

If you wish to telephone the office (on the number above) to talk through
the clarification, I would be more than happy to discuss the matter with
you.

The normal time limit for responding to a request for information, under
the Freedom of Information Act is 20 working days from the day after it is
received. However, where an authority reasonably requires further
information or clarification before it is able to respond to a request,
section 10(6)(b) of the FOIA specifies that the 20-day period for
compliance with the request begins when the authority receives the
information it requires to identify and locate the information requested.

The City Council would like to make you aware that if we do not receive
clarification within 60 days your request for information will be closed.

The Act defines a number of exemptions that may prevent release of some or
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consider whether any of these exemptions apply and, where required by the
Act, whether it is in the public interest to release the information. If
we have to make a public interest test, the 20 working day time limit
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If you have any queries or concerns then please contact the Corporate
Information Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices,
Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482,
e-mail [email address].

Yours sincerely

Peter Harding

Corporate Information Governance Officer

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FOI D & CE DEPARTMENT
Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AL
Telephone: 023 9268 8482
Fax: 023 9284 1327

Our Ref: FOI2009419
24 July 2009

Dear Ms Daley

FOI INFORMATION REQUEST – Elective Home Educated Children

Thank you for your request for information received on 2 July which was considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

In accordance with FOIA Portsmouth City Council confirms it holds the information. Please see below each of your questions, together with our response:-

1. Number of electively home educated children known to your LA.

44 (this is for the period 1/9/08 to 13/7/09)

2. Number of electively home educated children who have a care plan in place due to concerns of abuse.

The senior manager responsible for Children Services has provided the following response: “The number of children involved in both ELE as well as who meet the description in the request is so small that there is a risk of breaching the child(ren) and family's rights under Data Protection and Human Rights Acts."

Accordingly PCC has engaged FOI exemption s40(3) – personal data, where disclosure of that data would cause PCC to breach one of the Data Protection principles. PCC believes that Principle 2 would be breached as the data was processed by PCC for the purposes of providing a service to that family and child(ren) and not for onward processing by a third party.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, PCC confirms that it holds the information but under s17 (Refusal of a request) this part of your request is refused and the s40 exemption applied.

3. Total number of all children in your LA

38,100 (age 0-17) - mid year 2007 estimate which is the latest published figure.

4. Total number of children who have a care plan in place due to concerns of abuse.

Number of Child Protection Plans in place in the period 01/09/2008 - 13/07/2009 (this matches the period used for the home education cohort) = 395

Under the Re- Use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005 (SI 2005/1515) the supplied information may not be re-used without obtaining the permission of Portsmouth City Council.
Portsmouth City Council in complying with their statutory duty under sections 1 and 11 of the Freedom of Information Act to release the enclosed information will not breach the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. However, the rights of the copyright holder of the enclosed information will continue to be protected by the law. If you wish to use this information, you may require approval or licence from the copyright holder.

If you have any queries or concerns please contact the Corporate Information Governance Officer at Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO1 2AL, telephone 023 9268 8482, e-mail [email address].

Further information is also available from the Information Commissioner at:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 01625 545 700
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Yours sincerely

Helen Magri 
Corporate Information Governance Officer
Portsmouth City Council
Civic Offices
Guildhall Square
Portsmouth
PO1 2BQ
T: 023 9268 8482
E: [email address]
E: [Portsmouth City Council request email]
www.portsmouth.gov.uk

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Dear Ms Daley,
Thank you for your additional Question; I have asked the relevant department and awaiting their reply.

Kind Regards

FOI Team
Information Governance Co-Ordinator
Portsmouth City Council
Civic Offices
Guildhall Square
Portsmouth

[Portsmouth City Council request email]
023 92688459

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Dear Ms Daley

Please accept our apologies for this ommission.

I am able to advise that, in relation to the number EHE children with a protection plan in place, the number is greater than zero but is statistically insignificant.

Yours sincerely

Helen Magri 
Corporate Information Governance Officer
Portsmouth City Council
Civic Offices
Guildhall Square
Portsmouth
PO1 2BQ
T: 023 9268 8482
E: [email address]
E: [Portsmouth City Council request email]
www.portsmouth.gov.uk

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