Numbers of Elective Home Educators and details on CME

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Dear Tower Hamlets Borough Council,

FAO the Elective Home Education Department

Under the The Freedom of Information Act 2000 would you please provide the following information in respect of the years 2010 and 2013.
1) The average number of electively home educated children known to your authority for each of the above years.
2) The average number of children registered at a school in your area for the above years.
3) The number of children considered to be missing education (CME) in your area for the above years.
4) The number of school attendance orders served on Home Educating families for each of the above years (including how many children per family).
5) How many ESOs (Educational Supervision Orders) have been issued on Home Educating Families in your area for the above years (including how many children per family).
6) The number of those families served school attendance orders which resulted in court proceedings for each of the above years.
7) The number of SAO prosecutions which were upheld for each of the above years.
8) The number of SAO prosecutions that were revoked for each of the above years.
9) The number of SAO prosecutions for each of the above years that did not proceed because they were dropped before the court date for each of the above years and why each case was dropped.

Yours faithfully,

Cheryl Moy
www.educationalfreedom.org.uk

Misbaul Faim, Tower Hamlets Borough Council

 

 

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Misbaul Faim

Corporate Complaints and Information

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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London E14 2BG

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Samir Kamil, Tower Hamlets Borough Council

Dear Cheryl

 

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000: FOI 10055 Numbers of Elective Home
Educators and details on CME

 

Your request for information has been considered under the requirements of
the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

 

 

1)    The average number of electively home educated children known to
your authority for each of the above years.

 

Home Education From 2007 to September 2013
Home Education 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 to 2012/13 to
date date
Total Number of EHE 39 64 76 80 99 119
cases
Number of new EHE 25 33 37 26 39 64
cases

 

2)    The average number of children registered at a school in your area
for the above years.

 

Year Number of children registered at a school in TH
2010 38910
2011 39708
2012 40187
2013 41160

 

3)    The number of children considered to be missing education (CME) in
your area for the above years.

 

2009/10 102
2010/11 78
2011/12 83
2012/13 83

 

 

4)    The number of school attendance orders served on Home Educating
families for each of the above years (including how many children per
family).

 

0

 

5)    How many ESOs (Educational Supervision Orders) have been issued on
Home Educating Families  in your area for the above years (including how
many children per family).

 

0

 

6)    The number of those families served school attendance orders which
resulted in court proceedings for each of the above years.

 

0

 

7)    The number of SAO prosecutions which were upheld for each of the
above years.

 

None

 

8)    The number of SAO prosecutions that were revoked for each of the
above years.

 

None

 

9)    The number of SAO prosecutions for each of the above years that did
not proceed because they were dropped before the court date for each of
the above years and why each case was dropped.

 

3 cases did not proceed because the families accepted the education
provision that they were providing was unsuitable, and subsequently agreed
to the education pathways which were being offered by Tower Hamlets,
rather than allow the issue to proceed to a magistrates school.

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Samir Kamil

ESCW Information Governance Team

T: 0207 364 2159

E: [1][email address]

 

Education, Social Care and Wellbeing Directorate

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

Mulberry Place

5 Clove Crescent

London E14

 

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