Dear Sir or Madam,

Please supply me with the following information:

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.

Yours faithfully,

Lynn Daley

Dear Ms Daley

Thank you for your email.

I acknowledge your request for information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. Assuming we hold this information, I will
endeavour to supply the data to you as soon as possible but no later
than 30 July 2009 (20 working days from date of receipt).

I will advise you as soon as possible if we do not hold this information
or if there are exemptions to be considered and/or any costs for
providing the information. Please quote our reference - FOI/09/781 - in
any communication regarding this particular request.

Best regards

Michelle Hunt
Access to Information Co-ordinator
Communication & Information Governance
Children, Families & Education Directorate
Kent County Council
Room 2.35, Sessions House
Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1XQ
External: 01622 696692
Internal: 7000 6692
Email: [email address]

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Your response is now late and you are breaking the law. Please
forward ASAP.

Yours faithfully,

Lynn Daley

Thank you for your email. I am out of the office until Monday 10 August.

If your request is urgent please contact Debbie Percival (am only) on ext
6357 or one of the following:

Sandra Town, KASS Information Governance Co-ordinator on ext 1790
Andrew Swan, CMY Information Governance Officer on ext 1621
Pauline Banks, EH&W Information Governance Officer on ext 6915
Caroline Dodge, CED Access to Information Co-ordinator on ext 1652.

If you are sending a Freedom of Information request, please forward your
email to: [Kent County Council request email].

If you are sending a request for access to your personal data, please
forward your email to: [email address].

Otherwise, I will deal with your enquiry as soon as I can on my return.
Thank you.

Dear Sir or Madam,

Then perhaps you should have dealt with my request before you went
on holiday!

Yours faithfully,

Lynn Daley

Dear Ms Daley

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. We have answered your questions below in the
order they were raised.

Q1) Number of Home Educated Children
1004

Q2) Number of Electively Home Educated Children with a Care Plan
1

Q3) Number of Children 0-17 years (Kent County Council)
*310824

Q4) Number of Children With a Care Plan
1220.

* Mid Year 2007 Population Estimate from Office of National Statistics

If you are unhappy with this response, and believe KCC has not complied
with legislation, please ask for a review by following our complaints
process; details can be found at this link
http://www.kent.gov.uk/council-and-democ...
s/complaints-procedure.htm#foi on our website. Please quote reference
FOI/09/781.

If you still remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can
appeal to the Information Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Details of what you need to do, should
you wish to pursue this course of action, are available from the
Information Commissioner's website
http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/freedom...

Best regards

Michelle Hunt
Access to Information Co-ordinator
Communication & Information Governance
Children, Families & Education Directorate
Kent County Council
Room 2.35, Sessions House
Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1XQ
External: 01622 696692
Internal: 7000 6692
Email: [email address]

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Dear Ms Hunt,

Thank you for the information but I am a little surprised. I
understand that in your submission to Graham Badman's review of EHE
in January Kent stated that the number of EHE children was 694 but
here it is listed as 1004.

Have you had a huge surge in home educating families or have you
perhaps given me figures for children educated otherwise than at
school rather than electively home educated children?

Yours sincerely,

Lynn Daley

Dear Ms Daly

The information we provided for question 1 includes all children with a
relevant open referral of 'educated at home'. This mean that 16 and 17
year olds with open referrals are included in the total (there were no
age group specifications in your original request). We believe that the
figure you refer to did not include the figures for 16 and 17 year olds.
We have attached (with the spreadsheet) a breakdown of the total by age,
which we hope will clarify this.

Whilst we were reviewing the figures, we found that the answer to
question 2 had been misinterpreted. The number of home educated
children with a care plan is 0. Please accept my apologies for this and
I hope it has not caused any inconvenience.

If you are unhappy with this response, and believe KCC has not complied
with legislation, please ask for a review by following our complaints
process; details can be found at this link
http://www.kent.gov.uk/council-and-democ...
s/complaints-procedure.htm#foi on our website. Please quote reference
FOI/09/781.

If you still remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you can
appeal to the Information Commissioner, who oversees compliance with the
Freedom of Information Act 2000. Details of what you need to do, should
you wish to pursue this course of action, are available from the
Information Commissioner's website
http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/freedom...

Best regards

Michelle Hunt
Access to Information Co-ordinator
Communication & Information Governance
Children, Families & Education Directorate
Kent County Council
Room 2.35, Sessions House
Maidstone, Kent, ME14 1XQ
External: 01622 696692
Internal: 7000 6692
Email: [email address]

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