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Dear Ms Daley

Thank you for your request for information, relating to home educated
children, children with care plans.

In accordance with provisions within the Freedom of Information Act 2000,
the council will respond to your request within 20 working days saying

whether we have the information that you want, and if there will be any
charges.

If for any reason we cannot provide you with the information we will tell
you why. If we need to clarify your request, we will contact you again.

In the meantime, if you need to contact me about your enquiry please do so
quoting the above reference number using the contact details below.

(On behalf of ) Nailah Ukaidi

Principal Performance Officer ( Information & Records )

Customer Focus & Intelligence (FoI, DPA & EIR)

Corporate Performance Management

Walsall Council

The Civic Centre

Darwall Street

Walsall

WS1 1TP

Tel: 01922 653585

Fax: 01922 614210

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Dear Ms Daley,

Further to your request for information home educated children, I write to
ask for clarification of some aspects of your request. I apologise for the
delay in getting back to you.

Where you have referred to care plan, please confirm whether you mean care
plan or child protection plan. Only children who are in the care of the LA
will be subject to a care plan, where there are concerns of abuse some
children will be subject to a child protection plan.

The Freedom of information Act 2000 allows the council 20 working days in
which to respond to information requests. However, the "clock" stops when
we need to seek clarification in order to locate or identify relevant
information. Once we have received the requested clarification, I will
proceed with your request.

If you wish to proceed with this request please send your clarification to
me, quoting the above reference number and using the contact details
below.

Nailah Ukaidi

Principal Performance Officer ( Information & Records )

Customer Focus & Intelligence (FoI, DPA & EIR)

Corporate Performance Management

Walsall Council

The Civic Centre

Darwall Street

Walsall

WS1 1TP

Tel: 01922 653585

Fax: 01922 614210

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Dear Ms Daley;

Further to your request for information about electively home educated (
EHE) children, I can tell you the following:

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

The council currently has 76 children listed as EHE. As there is no legal
requirement for families to register this information, this number
reflects the information held by the council.

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

The council is not aware of any cases where there are any current care
plans in place, relating to concerns of abuse, for existing EHE However
there have been 2 cases where involvement of a social care professional
has been recorded.

3. Total number of all children in your LA

The total number of children recorded in the borough is 60,414

4. Total number of children who have a care plan in place due to concerns
of abuse - 188

I apologise for the short delay in getting this reply to you.

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Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004
requests will be subject to copyright protection. In most cases the
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other information may be owned by another person or organisation, as
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You are free to use any information supplied to you in response to this
request for your own non-commercial research or private study purposes.
The information may also be used for any other purpose allowed by a
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However, any other type of re-use, for example by publishing the
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require the permission of the copyright owner.

I hope that the information provided is useful to you. However, if you are
dissatisfied, you should set out in writing your grounds for complaint and
send to: Complaints Section, Corporate Performance Management (FOI), Civic
Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall WS1 1TP.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for a decision.
Please remember that, generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you
have first exhausted the complaints procedure provided by the council. The
Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information
Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF.

Nailah Ukaidi

Principal Performance Officer ( Information & Records )

Customer Focus & Intelligence (FoI, DPA & EIR)

Corporate Performance Management

Walsall Council

The Civic Centre

Darwall Street

Walsall

WS1 1TP

Tel: 01922 653585

Fax: 01922 614210

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"The information in this message must be regarded as confidential and is
intended for the addressee only unless explicitly stated. If you have
received this message in error it must be deleted and the sender notified.
The views expressed in this message are personal and not necessarily those
of Walsall Council unless explicitly stated. Please be aware that emails
sent to or received from Walsall Council may be intercepted and read by
the council to ensure compliance with council policies or regulatory
obligations, or for the purposes of essential maintenance or support of
the email system. You should also be aware that any email may be subject
of a request under Data Protection, Freedom of Information or
Environmental Information legislation and therefore could be disclosed to
third parties".

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