welfare concerns in home educated children in cambridgeshire

HelenJohnson made this Freedom of Information request to Cambridgeshire County Council

The request was successful.

From: HelenJohnson

7 April 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

would you please furnish me under the FOI act the following
information, thankyou:

1. The number of referrals to Social Services of welfare concerns
about home-educating families during 2008 and the percentage of
those referrals in which Social Services took action.

2. The number of families and the total number of children known to
be home educated during 2008.

3. Any policy documents relating to how the LA follows up on
home-educated young people who have reached 16 in order to
ascertain if they are achieving economic well being.

4. The number of previously home-educated young people who are NEET
and the basis for calculating this number.

5. The percentage of home-educating families who accept home visits
from an EWO.

Yours faithfully,

HelenJohnson

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From: Ainsworth Paul
Cambridgeshire County Council

22 April 2009

Dear Helen Johnson

Thankyou for your enquiry. I will answer your questions in turn:

1 Our Social Care Teams do not record this information - we only have
total numbers for referrals. Colleagues in Social Care are however
unaware of having received any such referrals in recent times

2 In 2007/08, 278 children were known to us as being home-educated

3 We do not follow up home-educated children post-16

4 According to our data basis, there are no home-educated pupils who are
"NEET". All home-educated pupils receive information about Connexions
and how to access their services. The very few who do so tend to ask
about work experience. One or two have accessed information about
post-16 courses.

5 It is extremely rare for a home-educating family to be visited by an
EWO.

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your request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our
decision, you should write to Helen Maneuf, Head of Audit and
Information Governance, Box RES 1405, Room 307, Shire Hall, Castle Hill,
Cambridge CB3 0AP within 40 days of receiving this response.

If you are not content with the outcome of any complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner (IC) for a decision. Generally
the IC cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the Council's
own complaints procedure. The IC can be contacted at Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely

Paul Ainsworth

Communications and Customer Relations Manager

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