School placements / Home Education
Case reference FOI2024/01494
Received 7 September 2024
Published 25 September 2024
Request
How many children of compulsory school age are known to live in your LA as of 1st September 2024?
How many state school places for children of compulsory school age are there in your LA boundaries?
How many independent school places for children of compulsory school age are their in your LA Boundaries?
How many compulsory school age children residing in your LA are categorised as being children missing education as of 1st September 2024?
How many compulsory school age children are electively home educated as of 1st September 2024?
How many compulsory school age children residing in your LA are receiving their education outside of a school setting funded by the LA as of 1st September 2024 If a parent moves into your LA and requests a school place using figures from last 3 years what is the average amount of days it takes from the parental request until the child is enrolled in a school? If a parent was Electively home educating and stops EHE and requests a school place using figures from last 3 years what is the average amount of days it takes from the parental request until the child is enrolled in a school?
If a parent withdraws there child from an independent school and requests a school place using figures from the last 3 years what is the average amount of days it takes from the parental request until the child is enrolled in a local school?
Dose the LA facilitate any education for the child between the parental request and school enrolment? If no why not?
Response
A: Please note, the information requested in questions 7, 8 and 9 is not held in a form that would enable it to be located, retrieved and extracted within the Appropriate Time Limit which equates to 18 hours as defined by the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limits and Fees) Regulations 2004.
Our electronic reporting systems are unable to run a report for this information. To ascertain the data requested officers would need to manually check files for this information. An initial search has shown that 4610 files would need to be checked for this information, and it is estimated that it would take 2 hours to check each file.
This would at a conservative estimate take at least 768 hours to complete. Where the Limit is exceeded Public Authorities are not obliged to supply the information requested by virtue of S12 of the Act. Please take this letter as a refusal notice under S17 of the Act.
I have been advised that we could answer questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 10. If this would be of use please let me know.
Documents
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