EHE department - suitable education
Dear Sir or Madam,
I read that you had 37 children registered as Electively Home Educated in 2007 and a different FOI request has already asked for current figures.
Therefore for the purposes of this FOI request , these children are either de-registered from a school or have never been registered with a school.
A) I would like to know of these children how many are there where the visiting person has concerns that a 'suitable' education is 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 particular child is not appearing to be learning 'enough'?
3)whether there are concerns because the family have not implemented a structured approached?
4)or whether the fact that the national Curriculum is not being followed is causing concern?
C)If there are children in the above 4 categories , please indicate if further steps are being taken- for example , issuance of a School Attendance Order?
D)Please also indicate if any any Education Supervision Orders are currently in court for this population.?
E) Please can you confirm whether any children who fit into the above categories of concern about 'educational provision suitability' would also therefore be referred to Social Services?
F) Lastly is it possible in your Local Authority that Social Services are involved with a family but that The EHE department do not know of this involvement (This involvement would be on an
on-going basis rather than a one off referral which is found to be of no genuine concern)
Yours faithfully,
Tania Berlow
Dear Ms Berlow
Thank you for your request for information received on 3/8/2009. We aim to
respond to your request within 20 working days. If for any reason we are
unable to meet this deadline we will keep you fully informed of the
reasons for this and let you know how long the delay will be. If there
is a fee to be paid before the information can be sent to you we will
write and tell you at the earliest opportunity what the fee will be.
Yours sincerely
Karen Taylor
P.A. to Anna Janes
Head of Planning, Information & Performance
Children & Families Department
Strategy & Partnerships Division
Tel: 020 8937 4304
Fax: 020 8937 4697
email: [email address]
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Dear Ms Berlow
I apologise for the delay in providing you with a response to your Freedom
of Information Request but our Achievement and Inclusion Officer has been
on annual leave. Unfortunately there appears to be some confusion about
the year you require figures for.
Could you please clarify which year you require figures for and also for
which cohort of children. Are you referring to Electively Home Educated
children or those who have been de-registered from a school or have never
been registered with a school?
I am on annual leave until next Tuesday but will respond on my return.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Kind regards
Karen Taylor
P.A. to Anna Janes
Head of Planning, Information & Performance
Children & Families Department
Strategy & Partnerships Division
Tel: 020 8937 4304
Fax: 020 8937 4697
email: [email address]
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Dear Sir or Madam,
any child that has been de-registered from a school or has never been to a school is considered home educated by the parents under section 7 of the Education Act. This is not the same as children who are excluded or truanting where they are still registered at a school nor does EHE apply to permanently excluded children where the local authority still has the duty to educate. Current EHE figures for Brent stand at 37 children according to a separate FOI response.
The figures being asked for are for the past academic year. thank you
Yours faithfully,
Tania Berlow
Dear Sir or Madam,
I thought i had replied to this. I am asking about the year that just ended seeing as it would be impractical to try and assess this coming year where there may be many children only just de-registered.
Yours faithfully,
Tania Berlow
Dear Sir or Madam,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Brent Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'EHE department - suitable education'.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/eh...
Yours faithfully,
Tania Berlow
Brent Council - INFORMATION REQUEST
Our Reference: 523840
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Dear Ms. Berlow
Thank you for your request for information received on 3 August 2009.
Please accept my apologies for the delay in acknowledging your request.
We are now in a position to answer your request however, we now have a
policy about how to respond to requests received via the Whatdotheyknow
site. We accept these requests as valid and respond to them however, whilst
we may send the formal notification of the decision to the email address you
have provided we will not send the information requested to that address.
This is because we are aware that doing so will automatically result in the
information being published on the whatdotheyknow website. Publication of
information in this way may constitute an unauthorised re-use (under the
Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005) and may infringe
copyright. I would therefore be grateful if you will provide me with an
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an email address, as long as it does not result in automatic publication and
re-use.
If you wish to apply for permission to re-use any of the requested
information you may do so by writing to the IT Standards Manager at Brent
Council, Floor 5, 349-357 High Road, Wembley HA9 6BZ , telephone 020 8937
1402, e-mail [Brent Borough Council request email]
If you wish to appeal against the requirement to provide an alternative
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Information Commissioner can be contacted as follows: Information
Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9
5AF; Telephone: 01625 545 700, www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Yours sincerely
Stephen F Williams,
DPA & FOI Consultant
for Brent ITU
[email address]
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Dear Sir or Madam,
I was under the impression, having read 'Its Public Information' on the ICO website , that all Freedom of information requests are by definition PUBLIC.
however if this information can be sent to my email then please do so.
please elt me know if there is a problem with my email as sometimes this site does not allow them published .
Yours faithfully,
Tania Berlow
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