Home education

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Dear Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council,
1. How many home educated children do you know to be in your
Authority area currently.

2. Of those home educated children, how many have been visited in
their own home by your officers, or their parents have met with
your officers at a mutually agreed location, in the last 12
months.

3. Of the remaining children for whom visits or meetings did not
take place, for how many have the education department received
written reports from the parents, third party reports or samples
of
work in the last 12 months.

4. Of those home educated children currently in your area, for how
many have the parents declined to provide any information at all
in the last 12 months

Yours faithfully,

Eloise Reardon

Data Protection, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

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Byrom, Steven, Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Eloise

Further to your Freedom of Information request dated 20 April 2015 please find the responses to the questions raised:

1. How many home educated children do you know to be in your Authority area currently.
65

2. Of those home educated children, how many have been visited in their own home by your officers, or their parents have met with your officers at a mutually agreed location, in the last 12 months.
39

3. Of the remaining children for whom visits or meetings did not take place, for how many have the education department received written reports from the parents, third party reports or samples of work in the last 12 months.
20

4. Of those home educated children currently in your area, for how many have the parents declined to provide any information at all in the last 12 months
6

Yours sincerely,

Steve Byrom
Compliance and Governance Officer
Children and Young People’s Service 1st Floor Trafford Town Hall Talbot Road STRETFORD
M32 0TH

Telephone 0161 912 4698
Email: [email address]

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