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 not in education, employment or training (NEET), (b) how many home-educated children are not considered to be NEET, and (c) how many of the home-educated children in each local authority considered to be NEET (1) are from traveller families, (2) are children who first became home-educated in years 10 or11 with a previous history of irregular attendance, and (3) are children for whom the local authority has no evidence of their current occupation.

Answer: 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 47 local authorities identified a total of 270 out of 1220 home educated children that were not in education, employment or training when the Connexions Service conducted its autumn survey of year 11 school leavers, we are not able to release a breakdown of these data by local authority as the numbers for each category in each individual authority would be small. The percentages for different authorities are given in the form of a histogram on the Every Child Matters website at http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/ete/independent reviewofhomeeducation/irhome education/. Data requested in parts (1) and (2) of question (c) were not collected. Only children who had supplied information about their education, employment or training status are included in the survey.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 409; 715 c168-9WA
Session: 2009-10
Related items: Education: Home Schooling
Thursday, 7 January 2010
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Thursday, 7 January 2010
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Subjects: Home education Travellers Unemployment
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