S437(1) notices
Dear Reading Borough Council,
1) How many s437(1) notices have you issued between 01/11/2023 and 01/11/2024?
2)How many children did these s437(1) notices relate to?
3)What % of the above s437(1) notices where issued due to:
a) no information received
b)information on education provision received but not in the LA preferred format
c) a third-party report of concerns about the child's education
d) Parent declined meeting with LA staff
e)Parent declined to show work
4) Of the S437(1) notices issued between 01/11/2023 to 01/11/24 how many where escalated to a SAO
5) Of those escalated to an SAO how many requests to revoke the SAO were received by the LA
6) Of the request to revoke what % were revoked and what % where refused
7) When refusing the request to revoke SAO did you also inform the Parent of their right to request a direction from the SoS to revoke the SAO
8) Please can you provide a copy of your LA (personal subject data) sharing protocols with DFE concerning a parent requesting SoS to revoke an SAO
Yours faithfully,
Michelle Louise Zaher
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Dear Michelle,
Thank you for your request for information under the provisions of the
Freedom of Information Act (2000). In accordance with the Act, you can
expect to receive a formal written response to your enquiry by the 10th of
January 2025, 20 working days from today’s date.
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Dear Michelle,
Please find our response to your Freedom of Information Request
FOI/148073/2024 below:
1) How many s437(1) notices have you issued between 01/11/2023 and
01/11/2024?
1
2)How many children did these s437(1) notices relate to?
1
3)What % of the above s437(1) notices were issued due to:
a) no information received
b)information on education provision received but not in the LA preferred
format
c) a third-party report of concerns about the child's education
d) Parent declined meeting with LA staff
e)Parent declined to show work
4) Of the S437(1) notices issued between 01/11/2023 to 01/11/24 how many
were escalated to a SAO
0
5) Of those escalated to an SAO how many requests to revoke the SAO were
received by the LA
n/a
6) Of the request to revoke what % were revoked and what % where refused
n/a
7) When refusing the request to revoke SAO did you also inform the Parent
of their right to request a direction from the SoS to revoke the SAO
n/a
8) Please can you provide a copy of your LA (personal subject data)
sharing protocols with DFE concerning a parent requesting SoS to revoke an
SAO
All information regarding information sharing protocols are on the BFfC
website
Kind Regards,
Customer Relations Team
Reading Borough Council
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Dear FOI,
You appear to have omitted the answer to 3. I have looked on your website and been unable to find the data sharing protocol that would relate to the situation I have defined. Is this because it does not exist or is it contained in a different document, or if I have missed it when looking through the website please can you signpost me more specifically.
Yours sincerely,
Michelle Louise Zaher
Thank you for your e-mail. The Council is closed for the Christmas period
from 16:00 on 24 December 2024 and will re-open at 09:00 on 02 January
2025. We will deal with your enquiry as soon as we are able on our return
to the office.
Dear Michelle,
Please see our response below:
3)What % of the above s437(1) notices were issued due to:
a) no information received-1
b)information on education provision received but not in the LA preferred format- 0
c) a third-party report of concerns about the child's education-0
d) Parent declined meeting with LA staff -0
e)Parent declined to show work-0
Q8- Under section 6.16 of Statutory EHE guidance, it is not the LA that requests the Secretary of State to revoke an SAO, but a parent that refers this matter themselves. The Secretary of State may then give a direction to the local authority which either requires revocation of the order or may confirm it (s.442 of the Education Act 1996). It is not assumed in this process that the LA will need to provide any personal subject data. Our privacy notice https://brighterfuturesforchildren.org/p... states that we may share information with the DfE for statutory requirements and/or legal obligations which would include personal subject data in this situation.
Sorry for the lack of response in the first instance.
Thanks.
Customer Relations Team
Directorate of Resources
Reading Borough Council
Civic Offices, Bridge Street, Reading. RG1 2LU
Team Line: 0118 9372905
Email: [email address]
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