Written question asked by Lord Lucas (Conservative), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Baroness Morgan of Drefelin (Labour) on Friday, 11 December 2009.
Education: Home Schooling
- Question
- To ask Her Majesty's Government for each local authority for which they have data, (a) how many home-educated children are considered to be receiving no education, (b) what is the total number of home-educated children, and (c) how many of the home-educated children considered to be receiving no education (1) are from traveller families, (2) are children who first became home educated in years 10 or 11 with a previous history of irregular attendance, and (3) are children who have not yet been assessed.
- Answer
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I attach a table showing the number of electively home educated children in each local authority that responded to the questionnaire on home education distributed in September. The department's policy is not to release any information that might lead to individual children being identified where data released could be combined with other data. As 69 local authorities identified a total of 210 home educated children that they assessed as receiving no education at all, we are not able to release a breakdown of these data by local authority as the numbers for each individual authority would be very small and individual children might be identified. We did not collect information on the ethnic or cultural background of home educated children receiving no education, nor their age, so we are unable to provide information on the number from a traveller background, or the number that are in years 10 or 11. Home educated children awaiting assessment were included in the data collection as a separate category.
Local Authority Total Elective Home Educated (EHE) Population Bath and North East Somerset 50 Bedfordshire 70 Bolton 81 Bradford 132 Brighton and Hove 157 Buckinghamshire 185 Calderdale 38 Cambridgeshire 200 Cheshire East 127 City of London * Cornwall 311 Coventry 60 Cumbria 261 Darlington 97 Derby 79 Devon 674 Dorset 157 Dudley 156 Durham 110 East Riding of Yorkshire 139 Essex 733 Gateshead 29 Gloucestershire 224 Greenwich 96 Halton 28 Hampshire 372 Isle of Wight 141 Isles of Scilly 0 Kent 673 Kingston upon Hull 84 Kingston upon Thames 44 Kirklees 67 Lancashire 465 Leeds 140 Lewisham 123 Lincolnshire 411 Liverpool 57 Manchester 91 Medway 195 Milton Keynes 96 Newcastle upon Tyne 52 Norfolk 375 North East Lincolnshire 49 North Somerset 121 Northamptonshire 183 Northumberland 46 Nottingham City 96 Nottinghamshire 238 Oxfordshire 329 Plymouth 135 Reading 50 Redbridge 55 Redcar and Cleveland 27 Rotherham 70 Sefton 58 Somerset 249 South Gloucestershire 108 Southampton 82 St Helens 33 Staffordshire 244 Stockton on Tees 31 Sunderland 66 Surrey 695 Torbay 91 Trafford 35 Wandsworth 47 Warrington 39 Warwickshire 123 West Sussex 407 Wigan 72 Wiltshire 148 Windsor and Maidenhead * Wirral 35 Wolverhampton 141 Total 11,6** * indicates number < than 10 per LA
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 407; 715 c167-8WA
- Session
- 2009-10
- Related items
- Subjects
- Home education Travellers
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