Home Education visits by EHE officers
Dear Staffordshire County 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.
2. 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,
Julia Smith
Dear Ms Smith,
Thank you for your request for information.
Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and will be answered within twenty working days.
If you have any queries about this request do not hesitate to contact me. Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
Many Thanks,
Sophie Evans
Access to Information Team Assistant
Information Governance Unit
Staffordshire County Council
Location: Third Floor, Staffordshire Place 2, Tipping Street, Stafford
Postal Address: Wedgwood Building, Block A, Tipping Street, Stafford, ST16 2DH
Tel: 01785 895739
Dear Ms Smith,
Thank you for your request for information.
We have completed a search of our records and can confirm the following:
1. How many home educated children do you know to be in your Authority area currently.
470
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.
315
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.
26
2. 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.
We do not hold this information in an extractable format. In order to comply we would need to check the files of all 470 home educated children. This part of your request is therefore refused as per section 12 (the cost of compliance exceeds the appropriate limit) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
If you have any queries or require any further information please do not hesitate to contact me.
In the first instance if you have any comments relating to how your request has been handled by our authority, please write to Lian Stibbs, Access Manager, Information Governance Unit, Staffordshire County Council, Wedgwood Building, Block A, Tipping Street, Stafford, ST16 2DH.
If you have any further comments relating to how your request has been handled by our authority, please contact the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Many Thanks
Gemma Allen
Access to Information Officer
Information Governance Unit
Staffordshire County Council
Staffordshire Place
c/o Wedgwood Building - Block A
Tipping Street, Stafford
ST16 2DH
Tel: 01785 278568
[email address]
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I am still awaiting a response.