Elective Home Education team and numbers of children known and deregistered

Dear Ms Norman,

I write to acknowledge receipt of your request for information received on the 05 February 2018.

We will be processing your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In accordance with the legislation, the deadline for responding is 20 working days from the receipt of the request, this being 05 March 2018. However, we shall endeavour to deal with your request promptly, and if possible before this date.

Yours Sincerely,

Justin Hird
Legal Assistant
For John McElvaney
Director of Legal Services
Derbyshire County Council
County Hall
Matlock
DE4 3AG

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Dear Ms Norman

Thank you for your information request dated 5^th February 2018.  I can
confirm that we do hold the requested information. The request has been
considered under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  The response to
your request is as follows:

A)   I would like to know which department within Derbyshire County
Council local authority deals with elective home education?

Children’s Services – Learning, Access and Inclusion

1)    I would like to know who is currently employed in this team, and who
the team leader is.

Elective Home Education (EHE) Manager and business services staff.

2)    I would like to know who they report to.

Children’s Services – Learning, Access and Inclusion.

3)    What form of contact they use with families the first time they
contact them.

Some families make first contact with Elective Home Education by letter,
email and telephone.

Usual process is postage of Derbyshire County Council Guidance for Parents
on EHE to families, followed up by letter offering home education visit.

i)             Please supply copies of policies and procedures used for
elective home education, for staff use or supplied to Home educators.

Please see document attached “Derbyshire Approach to
EHE_tcm9-126813_tcm44-188365 (002)” .

B)   Has the LA made the team dealing with elective home education aware
that there is no requirement to investigate a case or for the LA to seek
to satisfy itself that a suitable education is being provided when they
know the reason why a child has ceased to attend school? The specified
reason being, parents have given legal notification to a school that they
are educating otherwise than at school.

The Local Authority (LA) pays due regard to the DfE guidance to LAs
regarding EHE

C) I would like to know how many children are currently known as being
electively home educated in the local authority.

694 (13 February 2018)

D) How many pupils have been de-registered from school to be electively
home educated?

Please provide numbers for: July 2015, July 2016 and July 2017. Please
categorise these into:

- Children with no known SEN

Children
with no
known SEN
Pupil
Year Count
July
15  <5
July
16   <5
July
17  12

- Children with SEN

Children with SEN
Pupil SEN
Year Count Need
July SEN
15  <5 Support
July
16   0  
July
17  0  

- Children de-registered from special schools

Children
de-registered
from special
school
Pupil
Year Count
July
15  0
July
16   0
July
17  0

- Children with care plans

Children with Care
plans
Pupil
Year Count SEN Need
July
15  0  
July
16   0  
Education,
July Health and
17  <5 Care Plan

- Children under services such as; CAHMS

Children
with CAHMS
Pupil
Year Count
July
15  0
July
16   0
July
17  <5

Please note that numbers of less than 5 (<5) are exempt under S40(2) of
the Freedom of Information Act and are not included so as not to make
individuals identifiable.

I hope this now deals with your request for information. However should
you wish the outcome to be reviewed, please follow the procedure as set
out below;

Stage 1:

In the first instance, please send in your comments, and wherever
possible, a copy of your request and the covering letter enclosing the
information or refusing your request to:

Access to Information Solicitor

Legal Services

Derbyshire County Council

County Hall

Matlock

DE4 3AG

Email: [1][Derbyshire County Council request email]

Please ensure that correspondence is marked as “Request for a review of my
Freedom of Information Act / Environmental Information Regulations
request”, and bears any case references you have been given.   

Stage 2:

After completing the above procedure, if you wish to challenge the
decision further, then you have a right to contact the Information
Commissioner’s Office as follows: 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Tel. 0303 123 1113/ Fax: 01625 524510

ICO Weblink: [2]http://www.ico.org.uk/complaints.aspx

Kind regards

Julie Yates

Julie Yates | Management Information Officer | SAR / FOI Team |
Information & ICT | Children’s Services | Derbyshire County Council |
County Hall, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 3AG | Tel: 01629 538853 / 531226

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