Electively Home Educated Children and those Receiving EOTAS, 1st - 25th June 2026
Case reference FOI2026/01476
Received 26 June 2026
Published 14 July 2026
Request
Please provide me with a copy of the following information for the period 1st - 25th June 2026 (inclusive):
1) The number of children aged 5 - 16 who were known to be electively home educated within your authority’s area.
2) The number of known home educated children who were identified as having a special educational need/disability (SEND).
3) Of those home educated children identified in query 2 as having SEND, the number who had an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
4) The number of council officers employed to work specifically with the families who are known to electively home educate a child, including job titles and annual hours of employment (e.g. 1 home education liaison officer 20 hours/week term time only, 1 home education liaison officer 30 hours/week 52 weeks/year, 1 Administrative Assistant 14 hours/week term time only).
If the officer does work other than with electively home educating families, please indicate how many hours are dedicated to the work supporting elective home education.
5) The number of children aged 5 - 16 who were on a school roll and receiving EOTAS/EOTIS (Education Otherwise Than At/In A School).
Response
Please provide me with a copy of the following information for the period 1st - 25th June 2026 (inclusive):
1) The number of children aged 5 - 16 who were known to be electively home educated within your authority’s area.
Answer: 465 (as at 25th June 2026).
2) The number of known home educated children who were identified as having a special educational need/disability (SEND).
Answer: 106, comprising:
· 70 receiving SEN Support at the time of EHE referral
· 2 with ceased EHCPs
· 34 with a current EHCP
3) Of those home educated children identified in query 2 as having SEND, the number who had an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP).
Answer: 34
4) The number of council officers employed to work specifically with the families who are known to electively home educate a child, including job titles and annual hours of employment (e.g. 1 home education liaison officer 20 hours/week term time only, 1 home education liaison officer 30 hours/week 52 weeks/year, 1 Administrative Assistant 14 hours/week term time only).
Answer: 2 x Social Inclusion and Elective Home Education Officers: 37 hours per week/52 weeks per year.
2 x Attendance and Engagement Officers: 37 hours per week/52 weeks per year.
If the officer does work other than with electively home educating families, please indicate how many hours are dedicated to the work supporting elective home education.
Answer: 2 x Elective Home Education Officers who work an average of 18.5 hours per week each on EHE.
1 x Attendance and Engagement Officer who works an average of 27 hours per week on EHE.
1 x Attendance and Engagement Officer who works an average of 15 hours per week on EHE.
5) The number of children aged 5 - 16 who were on a school roll and receiving EOTAS/EOTIS (Education Otherwise Than At/In A School).
Answer: The Service Area have advised EOTAS is a specific legal provision for the education of children with an EHCP for whom it would be inappropriate to attend a school, and therefore we would not have any children on a school roll and receiving EOTAS provision.
However, we do have 17 children on roll of a school for whom the LA is arranging a package of education under Section 19.
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