Home Education statistics

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Dear East Sussex County Council,

This is an FOI request. Please can you supply the following information:

1. How many children in your Authority area are currently known to be home educated?

2. Please state how many of these home educated children are known to the Authority because:

A. The parents informed the Authority.

B. Accident and Emergency informed the Authority following a visit to the hospital by a home educated child.

C. A member of the health services informed the Authority.

D. A School informed the Authority when the child was de-registered.

E. A member of the public informed the Authority.

F. A third party organisation such as a charity or volunteer group informed the Authority.

3. For all these home educated children, how many letters were sent requesting details of the child's education provision?

4. For all these home educated children, where the information was provided, how many then received a written notice under Section 437 (1) of the Education Act 1996 ?

5. For all these home educated children, where the information was not provided, how many then received a written notice under Section 437 (1) of the Education Act 1996 ?

6. How many of these home educated children contacted under under Section 437 (1) were served with of a school attendance order under Section 437 (3) of the Education Act 1996?

Yours faithfully,

T.L.Jones

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