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This person's 33 Freedom of Information requests
LAs 'contracting out' responsibility for education
Request to Department for Children, Schools and Families by L Thorn. Annotated by Fiona Nicholson on 6 February 2010.
Information not held.
Louise, Education Otherwise has been researching the area of staffing costs and terms and conditions of employment since August and will shortly be in...
Ofsted responded to this request by tacking the answer on to another request I had previously made to them. Their answer can be viewed here.
http:...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education Provision
Awaiting internal review.
by Enfield Council to L Thorn on 5 December 2009.
Awaiting internal review.
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Response
Dear Sir / Madam
We acknowledge your request for information received on 05/12/2009 08.25 AM
Your request has been pa...
Clarification of details in Working Paper from Badman Review
Successful.
by Department for Children, Schools and Families to L Thorn on 4 December 2009.
Successful.
Dear Mr/Ms
Thorn,
Your Ref: 2009/0099732
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 24 November 2009.
You requested the follow...
Serious Case Review Reports submitted to the Ofsted National Business Unit.
Successful.
by Office for Standards in Education to L Thorn on 3 December 2009.
Successful.
Dear Ms Thorn,
Please find attached a letter replying your email.
Kind Regards,
Sharon
Sharon Onuoha
Ofsted Safeguarding Team
Aviation House, Lond...
Disparity in numbers of Anonymised SCR received by DCSF & OFSTED
Follow up
sent to Department for Children, Schools and Families by L Thorn on 27 November 2009.
Successful.
Thank you for providing a very clear answer to my question.
Yours faithfully,
L Thorn
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education Provision
Successful.
by Telford and Wrekin Council to L Thorn on 19 November 2009.
Successful.
Dear L Thorn
Please find attached correspondence in relation to your recent Freedom of
Information request reference number TWC-03599 .
Many...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Awaiting internal review.
Clarification: EHE used as a 'get out of jail free' card by parents avoiding prosecution for truancy. Parents who then state they are unable to prov...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Internal review request
sent to Hillingdon Borough Council by L Thorn on 23 October 2009.
Awaiting internal review.
Thank you for your response to my questions - please could you clarify the following points. You may need to refer the questions to the visiting o...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Successful.
by Hull City Council to L Thorn on 20 October 2009.
Successful.
Our reference 000631/09
Dear Sir/Madam
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Information Request - Concerns About Suitability of Elective Home
Ed...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Follow up
sent to Isle of Wight Council by L Thorn on 19 October 2009.
Partially successful.
Thank you for your response, please could you clarify what is meant by parents not co-operating? From the data you have provided 5 children were re...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education Provision
Successful.
by Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council to L Thorn on 19 October 2009.
Successful.
Thank you for your email.
I am out of the office. I will be back in the office on 21st Octobr.
Anything urgent plese contact the office on 0161 342...
NASWE submission to the Badman Review of Elective Home Education in England
Refused.
by Department for Children, Schools and Families to L Thorn on 14 October 2009.
Refused.
Dear Ms Thorn,
FOI request 2009/0066648
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 23 July
2009. I have dealt with your r...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education Provision
Successful.
by Somerset County Council to L Thorn on 8 October 2009.
Successful.
Please note that the figures attached are for children registered with
us for school year 2008 to 2009 - a total of 311 children and young
people....
Serious Case Review reports sent to Child Protection Division
Follow up
sent to Department for Children, Schools and Families by L Thorn on 7 October 2009.
Successful.
Thank you for this response, I am about to go off for a short family holiday, so I do not have time to go into your response in detail, but it seem...
ECC response to the EHE Questionnaire
Follow up
sent to Essex County Council by L Thorn on 7 October 2009.
Successful.
I received a copy of the Essex response to the Badman questionnaire some time ago. I have now been contacted by another person submitting FOI requ...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education Provision
Successful.
by Hampshire County Council to L Thorn on 7 October 2009.
Successful.
Dear Mr Thorn,
Please find attached Hampshire County Council's response to your request
for information.
Kind regards
<<1877 Thorn NOD.doc>> <<1...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Successful.
by Hertfordshire County Council to L Thorn on 2 October 2009.
Successful.
Dear L Thorn,
Thank you for your email of 1st October 2009.
I can confirm that this does mean that the 15 cases discussed below failed
to provide...
Serious Case Review Figures presented to Graham Badman as part of EHE Review
Request to Department for Children, Schools and Families by L Thorn. Annotated by M Stafford on 25 September 2009.
Refused.
I would refer this straight to the information commissioner. I do not see how they can say the data would harm people when SCRs are put in the public...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education provision.
Successful.
by Haringey Borough Council to L Thorn on 22 September 2009.
Successful.
So sorry - I sent you the wrong FOI at first but glad to hear you have
the right one now.
Sue
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education Provision
Request to Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council by L Thorn. Annotated by L Thorn on 20 September 2009.
Successful.
51 children registered as EHE, no concerns.
But council system places children leaving school to be EHE on a 'not in school' list for three months...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Successful.
by The Learning Trust to L Thorn on 20 September 2009.
Successful.
I am out of the office from 17 - 21 September. If the matter is urgent, please contact Marcia Van-Loo on 0208 820 7111 or Tom Brooke on 0208820 7114 i...
Numbers of Electively Home Educated Children in Nottingham & Concerns about Suitability of Education Provision for those Children.
Successful.
by Nottingham City Council to L Thorn on 16 September 2009.
Successful.
Dear L Thorn
Please find attached response to the above request
Regards
Information Governance
Resources
0115 9159884
Grab a Grand...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Follow up
sent to Hartlepool Council by L Thorn on 15 September 2009.
Successful.
Thank you for responding with the information requested. I am quite satisfied with the response - I do not feel it necessary, from my point of vie...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Follow up
sent to Islington Borough Council by L Thorn on 10 September 2009.
Successful.
Thank you for taking the time to explain Cambridge Education's approach to home education and home educators to me so fully.
Yours sincerely,
L...
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Ofsted responded to this request by tacking the answer on to another request I had previously made to them. Their answer can be viewed here.
http:...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Awaiting internal review.
Clarification: EHE used as a 'get out of jail free' card by parents avoiding prosecution for truancy. Parents who then state they are unable to prov...
Who Initiated the Request for Supplementary Evidence to Support the Badman Review of Home Education
Request to Department for Children, Schools and Families by M Stafford. Annotated by L Thorn on 28 October 2009.
Successful.
Ooops, blink and you'd miss it (like I did) Thank You Tania.
Lou Thorn
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Awaiting internal review.
Still don't see the logic in any parent saying 'we are home educating to avoid prosecution for non attendance at school, but we are not providing an e...
Who Initiated the Request for Supplementary Evidence to Support the Badman Review of Home Education
Request to Department for Children, Schools and Families by M Stafford. Annotated by L Thorn on 21 October 2009.
Successful.
Hi Maire, Did you get the answer you wanted, couldn't see one on the site, but the request has been logged as 'successful'.
Lou Thorn
The period DCSF gave me data from was 01/04/07 - 09/08/09, they destroy the copies of files they have after they've compiled the bi-annual report on t...
Um, one case in the 20 cases _they_were_able-to_categorise_ without it costing lots of money means that 5% of all SCR are about home educated children...
Transcript/Recording of the Badman press conference
Request to Department for Children, Schools and Families by C. Blades. Annotated by L Thorn on 20 September 2009.
Successful.
a) can't read the writing, and I don't understand shorthand
b) who was this written by? Did Graham Badman write this, did a DCSF employee sit by and...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education Provision
Request to Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council by L Thorn. Annotated by L Thorn on 20 September 2009.
Successful.
51 children registered as EHE, no concerns.
But council system places children leaving school to be EHE on a 'not in school' list for three months...
Elective Home education- suitable education
Request to Nottinghamshire County Council by Tania Berlow. Annotated by L Thorn on 16 September 2009.
Successful.
Tania, have you thought about sending a message to 'What Do They Know' ... saying you are having problems with their system, it looks like a system er...
Response in the pipeline apparently.
Awaiting substantial clarification for this FOI response, I expect it may take them some time to respond.
Evidence to support statement in Elective Home Education report
Request to Department for Children, Schools and Families by S Tyler. Annotated by L Thorn on 28 August 2009.
Partially successful.
Give Sue Thompson a ring, her number is on the last message, I've spoken to her before and she seemed genuinely to want to help, in so far as she is a...
Most staff on holiday at the moment, this is LA policy as for some reason they have most requests during school term time. They will write to me agai...
Attachment is a letter from the Borough Solicitor confirming that my request has been passed to the relevant team member for processing and data retri...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Information not held.
Thanks Tania,
They do however have a facility on this website to send FOI requests to The Learning Trust, which I have done. As they are actually no...
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Information not held.
I have been informed that the information requested is not held by Hackney Borough Council, but something called 'The Learning Trust'. What Do They K...
Concerns about Suitability of Elective Home Education provision
Partially successful.
Notifying me that they are acknowledging my request.
Concerns about suitability of Elective Home Education Provision
Request to Hammersmith and Fulham Borough Council by L Thorn. Annotated by L Thorn on 3 August 2009.
Successful.
Have been advised that time-scale has to be extended on this request - response now expected on or before 18/09/09.
ECC response to the EHE Questionnaire
Successful.
I have had a copy of the submission a response from ECC. I have also been informed that front line staff dealing with Home Educating families were no...
