Number of electively home educated children and young people

Dear Ms Daley

Thank you for your email.

It will be treated as a request within the meaning of the Act: this means that we will send you a full response within 20 working days, either supplying you with the information which you want, or explaining to you why we cannot supply it. If we need any further clarification or there is any problem we will be in touch.

In the meantime if you wish to discuss this further please contact me. It would be helpful if you could quote the log number 800190

Yours sincerely

Rose Raine
Information and Record Management Officer
Cheshire East Council
Tel 01270 529668
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk

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Dear Ms Daley

In response to your request for information concerning the number of electively home educated children and young people I attach information relating to EHE statistics which I trust will supply the answers to your questions.

I apologise for the delay in supplying this information.

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review, under the Freedom of Information Act, of this decision relating to your request, you should write to the Freedom of Information Officer, Cheshire East Council, Westfields. Sandbach, Cheshire, CW11 1HZ

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint you then have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely

Rose Raine
Information and Record Management Officer
Cheshire East Council
Tel 01270 529668
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk

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Dear Ms Daley

I am sorry you are having problems understanding the figures I have supplied; if you would like to contact me I will be happy to explain the figures.

I am afraid your request for a total figure for the number of children who have a protection plan in place due to neglect or abuse is not so straightforward as might at first seem. The number of children subject to a Child protection Plan changes daily and, though we do initial checks when a child enters the system, we do not keep an updated list, so information you have requested does not exist in a easily accessible format. To collate this information would require a trawl through individual case records.

I am though able to provide the following figures for newly Elective Home Education pupils who have deregistered from school between March 1st 2009 - 31st August 2009 in Cheshire East. Five were already known to social care prior to becoming EHE.

No of known pupils who became Known to Social Care Section 17 Section 47
EHE March 09 - Aug 31st 2009

25 5 2 3

The results are for Cheshire East only.

Due to my previous holiday commitments I have not been able to respond to your message of 11th September before today. I apologise for this.
Should you wish to discuss this matter further please feel free to contact me.
Yours sincerely

Rose Raine
Information and Record Management Officer
Cheshire East Council
Tel 01270 529668
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk

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