Education statistics for EHE children

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Christine Thompson

Christine Thompson
15.03.2015
Dear Sirs
I am a research assistant collating information about EHE children. This request for information is made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I require the following information, which please supply at the earliest possible opportunity, and no later than 20 working days.

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?
4. 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,
Christine Thompson

PPD - FOI, North East Lincolnshire Council

Dear Ms Thompson

 

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PPD - FOI, North East Lincolnshire Council

Dear Ms Thompson

 

Thank you for your information request, reference number 9521_1415. I
wish to confirm that North East Lincolnshire Council holds the following
information.

 

1.How many home educated children do you know to be in your Authority area
currently?

    

123

 

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?

   

66

 

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?

   

0: These alternatives to home visits or meetings are currently not part of
local authority practice as the ideal review process involves a home visit
or meetings. Ideally, we would like to visit annually but this is proving
to be a challenging objective. However, these alternatives are something
we will  reconsider, partly as the result of rapidly increasing EHE
numbers. In previous years we have only received a very small number of
reports/third party reports/samples of work from parents.           

 

4. 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?

    

3: we have 2 families who have declined to engage over the previous 12
months. One of these families refused to allow the initial visit three
years ago when the children first became EHE and they have not engaged at
any point since.

 

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Yours sincerely on behalf of North East Lincolnshire Council

 

Feedback Officer

Resources Directorate

 

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