Dear Mr Carter

Freedom of Information / Environmental Information Regulations Request:
LBH/7166718

I acknowledge your request for information received on 12 March 2018.

This information request will be dealt with in accordance with the Freedom
of Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations and we
will send the response by 11 April 2018

Yours sincerely,

Feedback and Information Governance

Shared Service Centre | Central Team

Haringey Council 

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Dear Mr. Carter

Re: Freedom of Information Act Request ref: LBH/7166718

Thank you for your request for information received on 12 March 2018, in
which you asked for the following information:

A) Can you please categorise how those known to the team dealing with
elective home education became known? E.g. School, Doctor, self-referral,
concerns about the educational provision reported etc.

Response: Notification of children being home educated is primarily from
the child’s previous school. Some notifications are from parents via the
Council’s e-notification webpage.

i) Does the local authority seek to satisfy itself that the educational
provision the parent(s) are providing is suitable to the child's age,
aptitude, ability and any SEN as soon as they become aware that parents
are electively home educating, regardless of how they become known to the
local authority?

Response: Yes

ii) How many instances have there been from June 2016, 2017 and to the
date of this FOI where the person dealing with elective home education has
or has had concerns that a 'suitable' education is not being provided?

Response: None

B) I would also appreciate it if this information could be broken down
into categories:

1)    whether they feel that no education is taking place? Response: Not
applicable

2)    whether they feel that the philosophy of education is inadequate -
for example in the case of autonomous or child led learning, that the
particular child is not appearing to be learning 'enough'? Response: Not
applicable

3)    whether there are concerns because the family have not implemented a
structured approach? Response: Not applicable

4)    or whether the fact that the national Curriculum is not being
followed is causing concern? Response: Not applicable

5)    a qualified third party is not involved in the child’s education?
Response: Not applicable

C) I would like to know of these children, how many of these concerns were
proven? Not applicable

i) Of the children in the above 6 categories, please indicate if further
steps have or are being taken - for example, referred to CME or issued
with a School Attendance Order. Please break it down into each year asked
for.

Response: SAOs: in 2016-17 5 School Attendance Orders were issued. Two
have been issued to date in 2017-18. Evidence of acceptable education was
provided as a result of the SAO process.

ii) Please indicate how many of these went to court in 2016 and 2017.

Response: in 2016-17 5 School Attendance Order cases were referred to
court. Two have been referred to court to date in 2017-18. Evidence of
acceptable education was provided as a result of the SAO process.

iii) Please also indicate if any Education Supervision Orders are
currently in court for this population?

Response: No Education Supervision Orders have been applied for or handed
down by the courts.

Finally, please provide all recorded documentation relating to elective
home education including policies, procedures (2015 - present) and
recorded communications relating to elective home education (2017 -
present), including any e-mail attachments. This does not include
communications between the Elective Home Education team and electively
home educating parents or information that falls under S40 (which I expect
to be redacted).

All Elective Home Education documents may be found at
[1]http://www.haringey.gov.uk/children-and-...

If you are unhappy with how we have responded to your request you can ask
us to conduct an Internal Review. If so, please contact the Feedback and
Information Team.

Yours sincerely

Eveleen Riordan

Joint Assistant Director, Schools and Learning

Haringey Council

Alexandra House, 10 Station Road N22 7TR

Tel: 020 8489 3607

Email: [2][email address]

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