Non Mainstream Schoools

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Dear Reading Borough Council,

Mainstream school is clarified in Section 83 Children a& Families Act as a school which is not a special school and is either a maintained school or an Academy.

Please provide a table that shows the following for the current academic year:

1) names of all non mainstream secondary schools that have RBC children with EHCP's on roll on a non residential basis and / or non waking day curriculum
2) "type" of school (eg non maintained special, section 41, independent etc etc)
3) Number of children with EHCP's currently on roll and what their primary SEN i
4) what the maximum class size is at this school
5) which GCSEs are provided at KS4

Yours faithfully,

Jacqui Prentice

FOI, CRT, Reading Borough Council

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Reference: FOI-589368467
Date of request: 23/02/2024
Title of request: Non Mainstream Schoools

Dear Jacqui Prentice,

Please accept this e-mail as acknowledgement that your recent Freedom  of
Information request has been received by Reading Borough Council. You
should expect to receive a response within 20 working days from the date
your request was received.

 

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Kind regards,

FOI Team

Dear The FOI Team,

My request was submitted on 23-02-2024, we are now on 7-04-2024 so you have gone well over the statutory tine-frame to respond. PLease update me asap

Yours sincerely,

Jacqui

FOI, CRT, Reading Borough Council

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acknowledgement mail with a reference number for your request. Setting out
the response time and date.

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you.
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Legal & Democratic Services | Information Governance and Compliance

Reading Borough Council
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Reading
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The FOI Team, Reading Borough Council

1 Attachment

Reference: FOI-589368467
Date of request: 23/02/2024
Title of request: Non Mainstream Schoools
Information request:

Dear Reading Borough Council,

 

Mainstream school is clarified in Section 83  Children a& Families Act as 
a school which is not a special school and is either a maintained school
or an Academy.

 

Please provide a table that shows the following for the current academic
year:

 

1) names of all non mainstream  secondary schools  that have RBC children
with EHCP's on  roll  on a non residential basis and / or non waking day
curriculum

2)  "type" of school  (eg non maintained special, section 41, independent
etc etc)

3) Number of children with EHCP's  currently on roll and what their
primary SEN i

4) what the maximum class size is at this school

5) which GCSEs are provided at KS4

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Jacqui Prentice

Dear Jacqui Prentice,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

 

Thank you for your recent request received by the Council on 23rd of
February 2024.

 

You have requested the following information under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act 2000:

 

1) names of all non mainstream  secondary schools  that have RBC children
with EHCP's on  roll  on a non residential basis and / or non waking day
curriculum

 

2)  "type" of school  (eg non maintained special, section 41, independent
etc etc)

 

3) Number of children with EHCP's  currently on roll and what their
primary SEN i

 

4) what the maximum class size is at this school

 

5) which GCSEs are provided at KS4

 

Our response is as follows:

 

Please see the attached table of children and young people with EHC Plans
by need.  GCSE subjects provided by each or any of the schools listed are
already publicly available on the school websites and are not our
information, but information belonging to each of the schools identified.

 

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Kind regards,

FOI Team

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