Dear Sir or Madam,

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

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Dear Catherine Larkin,

Thank you for your response, however I think there has been a bit
of a misunderstanding. In Q4. I asked for the total number of all
children in your LA who have a protection plan in place not just
home educated children.

Yours sincerely,

Lynn Daley

Dear Ms Daley

Further to your e-mail below, we had 309 children and young people with a
child protection plan in place (as at 31st March 2009).

Yours sincerely
Catherine Larkin

Dear Catherine Larkin,

Thank you for your response, however I think there has been a bit
of a misunderstanding. In Q4. I asked for the total number of all
children in your LA who have a protection plan in place not just
home educated children.

Yours sincerely,

Lynn Daley

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