Home education statistics

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Dear Oxfordshire County Council,

I would like to request the following information, under the Freedom of information act 2000, regarding statistics on home educated pupils within your local jurisdiction; I am enquiring about the following information, presented in an excel spreadsheet, sorted by academic years for the past 5 years if available:

The number of registered homeschooled students within your jurisdiction:

The number of students homeschooled after attending a school and removed by choice of their parent/main caregiver:

The number of home educated students who never attended school:

The total number of students in education within your jurisdiction excluding homeschooled students:

The number of home educated pupils by year group/age:

If any of the requested information is too broad or is unavailable at the time of the request, I would be grateful if you could please explain why in your response.

As the Freedom Of Information Act 2000 states, You are required to respond to my request within 20 working days after you receive this request. I would be grateful if you could please confirm that you have received this inquiry.

I look forward to hearing from you,

Yours faithfully,

Jack Rogers.

Joint Commissioning FOI, Oxfordshire County Council

 

Dear Mr Rogers

 

Thank you for your request of 12^th June in which you asked for statistics
on home educated pupils.

Your request is being considered and Oxfordshire County Council will
respond within 20 working days in compliance with the Freedom of
Information Act 2000. This means that the council will send a response to
you by 10th July 2018.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

Nancy Kurisa

Nancy Kurisa
Complaints, Information and VIVA Manager

Law and Governance, Directorate for Resources

Oxfordshire County Council
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Oxford
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Dear Mr Rogers

 

Thank you for your request of 12 June 2018 in which you asked for the
following information.  Please find our response to your questions below
in bold:

 

o The number of registered home-schooled students within your
jurisdiction.  Please see table below:

 

 

o The number of students home-schooled after attending a school and
removed by choice of their parent/main caregiver:  575

 

o The number of home educated students who never attended school:
Oxfordshire County Council does not hold this information.

 

o The total number of students in education within your jurisdiction
excluding home-schooled students: 2016/17 93,925

 

o The number of home educated pupils by year group/age: Please see table
below:

 

 

 

 

 

If any of the requested information is too broad or is unavailable at the
time of the request, I would be grateful if you could please explain why
in your response.

 

 

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Please let me know if you have further enquiries. I would be grateful if
you could use the reference number given at the top of this email.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Jennifer Bland

Elective Home Education Officer

Elective Home Education Team

Education Inclusion Service

Oxfordshire County Council

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