Educational Concerns
Dear Doncaster Borough Council,
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.
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?
ii) How many instances have there been in the years (from January 1st to December 31st) 2015, 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?
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?
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'?
3) whether there are concerns because the family have not implemented a structured approach?
4) or whether the fact that the national Curriculum is not being followed is causing concern?
5) a qualified third party is not involved in the child’s education?
6) An educational report has not been provided by a third party such as; a teacher etc.
C) I would like to know of these children, how many of these concerns were proven?
i) Of the children in the above 4 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.
ii) Please indicate how many of these went to court in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
iii) Please also indicate if any Education Supervision Orders are currently in court for this population?
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).
Yours faithfully,
J Carter
Dear J Carter,
Re: Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request for information.
Your request has been passed to the Learning Opportunities Children and Young People directorate. They will endeavour to search for any information held to provide you with a response as soon as is possible within 20 working days and in any case by the 5th April 2018.
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Sarah Marshall
Freedom of Information Officer
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Doncaster Council
Dear J Carter,
Please find attached Doncaster Councils response to your Freedom of
Information request dated 6 March 2018.
Yours sincerely
Jessica Pyle
Business Support Officer
Transformation Executive Group
Learning and Opportunities: Children and Young People
Doncaster Council
Phone 01302 862128
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J Carter
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Dear J Carter
Re: Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
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Your request has been passed to the Learning Opportunities Children and
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Yours sincerely
Sarah Winn
Information Governance Officer – Corporate Resources
Corporate Resources,
Doncaster Council
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Stephanie Grant
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