Home Education Standard Procedures
Dear Lewisham Borough Council,
Please provide a copy the following:
1) All the policies relevant to "home education" when children are electively being home educated that Lewisham comply with. Please provide a copy and list these policies.
2) All of the employee standard operating procedures for identifying, notice to satisfy, supporting, monitoring in place at Lewisham Council children being home educated.
3) How many parents or guardian prosecutions have been made for failure to satisfy in home education, in the following years:
a) 2020 to 2021
b) 2019 to 2020
c) 2018 to 2019
4) What is considered good practice or usual conduct at the local authority when you are in the process of issuing a final or a draft EHCP to a named child, at is time what is the exact legislative basis for serving Section 437 simultaneously. Please provide the internal employee standard operating procedures (not policy) for this process.
Yours faithfully,
R Resident
Dear R Resident,
Re: Freedom of Information Act 2000
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Reference No: 11808101
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Dear R. Resident.
I write in response to your FOI request: 11808101.
Apologies for the delay in getting this information to you. Please see
attached both your request and the local authority’s response.
Should you wish to submit any future request, please do so in the normal
way by emailing: [1][email address]
Kind regards
Laurant Sealey
Senior Business Officer Complaints and Information
Email: [email address]
Telephone: 0208 314 7435
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