FOI request details

Request

Subject: Electively Home Educated children

Reference: WBC-FOI-01008

Please provide the current number of Electively Home Educated (EHE) children known to your authority.

Please provide the number of School Attendance Orders (SAO) served in relation to EHE children since 1/9/2022.

Please provide information on how many of those SAOs were revoked.

Please provide the number of those SAO's prosecuted for non compliance.

Response

Part Disclosed - 15 March 2023

Request for Information - WBC-FOI-01008 - Electively Home Educated children

I refer to your request for information received on 14 March 2023. Please see the information below in response to your request: -

Please provide the current number of Electively Home Educated (EHE) children known to your authority?

148

Please provide the number of School Attendance Orders (SAO) served in relation to EHE children since 1/9/2022?

Fewer than 5.

Please provide information on how many of those SAOs were revoked?

0

Please provide the number of those SAO's prosecuted for non compliance?

0

You will notice that the phrase 'fewer than 5' has been used in lieu of some exact figures above. This is because Wandsworth Council considers that disclosure of very low numbers of individuals would enable the identification of a living individual from that information, or, from the information and other data in the possession of, or likely to come into the possession of, a data controller. Disclosure of the requested information would result in a breach of one or more of the principles of the GDPR/DPA 2018 and the information is therefore exempt in accordance with Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

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