According to the minister, the Department for Education plans to draft and consult on revised guidance documents on
elective home education for local authorities and parents.
A spokesman for the Welsh government said: «We recognise that we are currently unable to provide reliable figures on how many children are educated at home and that is one of the reasons why we will be consulting on a database as well as statutory guidance for
elective home education.»
The DfE will revise non-statutory guidance on home education to explain the respective rights and obligations of LAs and parents more clearly, and to make it easier for LAs to «tackle poor
elective home education more effectively and with more confidence».
I have contacted the relevant services and now provide the following response to your request for information relating to
elective home education.
Dear Ms Nicholson, Thank you for your email dated 24 April 2014 about
Elective Home Education.
1 / Where
elective home education currently sits in your authority 2 / Which line in the s251 table included an allocation for
elective home education services in a / 2013 - 14 and b / 2014 - 15 3 / What is the budget sum allocated to
elective home education services for the current year 4 / What is the forward budget sum allocated to
elective home education services for the next financial year
Home educated students are also known as
elective home education (EHE) students.
Thank you for your recent enquiry, received on 07/08/2014, in relation to
elective home education.
1 / Where
elective home education currently sits in your authority 2 / Which line in the s251 table included an allocation for
elective home education services in a / 2013 - 14 and b / 2014 - 15 3 / What is the budget sum allocated to
elective home education services for the current year 4 / What is the forward budget sum allocated to
elective home education services for the next financial year Response:
Elective Home Education is a shared responsibility between School Improvement, Education Welfare and Complementary Education Services.
REF NO: 4829.1 I am writing to confirm that Middlesbrough Council has now completed its search for the information you requested on 07/08/2014 in relation to
elective home education.
What is the forward budget sum allocated to
elective home education services for the next financial year
In the time period of September 2013 and March 2014 there were only four communications between the Department and local authorities about
elective home education.
Outcomes of
elective home births: a series of 1,146 cases.
This cross-section is effectively our «customer base» and is made up of a mix of parents from
the Elective Home Education community, through to those parents who have become dissatisfied with the approach of their local school and or local authority.
Elective home education is the term used by the Department for Education - and therefore local authorities - to describe parents» decisions to provide education for their children at home instead of sending them to school.
Reference needs to be made to the following document -
Elective Home Education Guidelines for Local Authorities (England) 2007 Subsection 5.6 which clearly states;
Additional information is also available from Home Education UK especially their legal section which helps to clarify the 1996 Education Act for parents who are considering
the Elective Home Education choice.
In 2007 the Department issued Guidelines for Local Authorities in relation to the discharge of their statutory duties in relation to
elective home educators within their area.
Fiona has given evidence to Government Committees on the subject of
elective home education and can provide you with a clear up - to - date analysis of the key areas of
elective home education practice and policy in England and Wales.
We have looked into your request for information about Budget for
Elective Home Education, and our response is shown below.
I refer to your request for information relating to
the Elective Home Education team.
The Elective Home Education Policy»
Question 2 - What policies and procedures are in place in relation to personal data held by EHE Advisors in regard
Elective Home Educators in Nottinghamshire?
All EHE advisers are subject to a programme of induction which includes the legal framework within which
Elective Home Education sits.
However, such powers do not bestow on local authorities the ability to see and question children subject to
elective home education in order to establish whether they are receiving a suitable education.
They aren't the sum total of our homeschooling, which tends to include a lot of independent reading, independent art projects, sewing and knitting, violin - playing and choral singing, folk - dancing, household responsibilities which I count as
elective home - economics credit, and, currently, the launching of an Etsy business to sell some of her hand - knit goods, which experience I can fold into her required economics half - credit.
Not exact matches
And you will likely have additional health - care expenses as you age: the cost of
home care, physiotherapy,
elective medical procedures and some prescription drugs may have to come out of your own pocket.
Reprogrammed belief system, decided after originally planning
elective caesarean that
home birth was the go, committed time and energy into being pregnancy and preparing for birth, faith over fear, comfortable with midwife after devoting time and energy into the relationship, created vision board and reflected daily, music at birth, swayed body, focused inwards, concentrated on breath, support from partner, relief in water pool, slipped in and out of dreamlike consciousness, caught baby in own hand s, profound spiritual connection, trusting
This is like a study that says «people who have a
elective AAA repair are more likely to end up in an ICU than people who suffer AAA rupture at
home»... And forget to say that this is because most people who have AAA rupture at
home die before they get to hospital, or on the table in the OR, while EVERYONE who has an
elective open AAA repair spends time in ICU as a precaution.
I agree AD — and that needs to be the social message, right now the social message is that
elective cesareans are to be criticized and disdained and
home birth is to be applauded...
I think there are a lot more nutso's in the cohort who want a planned
home birth than in the cohort who requests a planned (
elective) C - section — no birth is «
elective», but the cohort who wants to preserve perineal strength and function while avoiding the pain of labor and the risk of labor on the baby should have their autonomy acknowledged.
That's the thing... pro
home birthers get pissy at anyone who would choose an
elective CS, but then claim they are allowed to endanger their babies at
home birth.
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The data relate to pregnancies that received maternity care from one of fifteen hospitals in the former North West Thames Regional Health Authority Area in England, and which resulted in a live or stillbirth in the years 1988 — 2000 inclusive, excluding «high - risk» pregnancies, unplanned
home births, pre-term births,
elective Caesareans and medical inductions.
The middle school may send your child
home with a list of
electives to choose from, or they may go over
elective possibilities at orientation or when your child attends the school tour or open house.
Selective mutism (SM), formerly called
elective mutism, is best understood as a childhood anxiety disorder characterized by a child or adolescent's inability to speak in one or more social settings (e.g., at school, in public places, with adults) despite being able to speak comfortably in other settings (e.g., at
home with family).
Selective mutism (SM), formerly called
elective mutism, is defined as a disorder of childhood characterized by an inability to speak in certain settings (e.g. at school, in public places) despite speaking in other settings (e.g. at
home with family).
Offer credit recovery, intervention, acceleration, and
elective courses at school or from students»
homes during the summer.
«DreamBox is one of the three blended learning
elective rotations that students visit daily, plus they're accessing the software at
home.
Enabling
home - schooled students to participate in school sports or
electives or allowing families to opt into a math program that is more to their liking can go a long way toward solving practical frustrations.
He said the staff would make personal calls
home to encourage re-enrollment and promote new
electives such as music and dance.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book examines the current state of
elective placements of medical undergraduate students in developing countries and their impact on health care education at
home.
And you will likely have additional health - care expenses as you age: the cost of
home care, physiotherapy,
elective medical procedures and some prescription drugs may have to come out of your own pocket.
Elective surgeries are offered on weekdays in order to provide your pet with a comfortable and monitored in - clinic recovery prior to going
home.
From birth to nursing
homes, other than
elective things like plastic surgeries, they are all taken care of.
As we sit praying for negative test results, staring in disbelief about a missed connecting flight for that unexpected trip
home or hating our too - proud selves for going to
elective surgery alone, we look up and see neglected, ugly art.
elective surgery which can be postponed until the Covered Person returns to his or her
Home Country.
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