Issue - meetings

Children out of Education Policy

 

 

Meeting: 04/09/2018 - Children's Select Committee (Item 50)

50 Children not in Education Policy

The committee is provided with a copy of the Families & Children’s Service Policy on Children Missing Out On Education/Children Missing Education/Elective Home Education.

 

Included are the following documents/reports:

  1. Overview report

Elective Home Education:

  1. Family and Children’s Services Policy in respect of Elective Home Education
  2. Annex 1 - Safeguarding Form - Elective Home Education
  3. Annex 2 – Support and Safeguarding Service: Elective Home Education Policy and Procedures (February 2018)
  4. Annex 3 – Elective Home Education: Guide for Parents and Carers
  5. Annex 4 – Elective Home Education: Guide for Local Authorities
  6. Annex 5 – Elective Home Education: Departmental Guidance for Local Authorities  (draft for consultation: April 2018)

Children Missing Out on Education/Children Missing Education

  1. Families & Children Services: Policy in respect of Children Missing Out on Education (CMOE) and Children Missing Education (CME)
  2. Annex 1 – CMOE/CME Flowchart
  3. Annex 1a – CME Notification to Education Welfare for Intervention Form
  4. Annex 2 – CMOE Monitoring Group Terms of Reference
  5. Annex 3 – Education Welfare Officer Practice Standards

 

Members are asked to comment on the reports and documents provided.

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Consideration was given to a report by Terence Herbert, Corporate Director, which provided a copy of the following policies:-

 

(1)       Elected Home Education, and

(2)      Children Missing Out on Education/Children Missing Education

 

Members were pleased to see the development of these two policies and generally supported their contents.  It was suggested that the draft letter to parents as set out on page 62 of the report be slightly amended so as to refer to suitable education rather than appropriate education, thus being consistent with the other draft letters to parents with children being home educated.

 

It was reported that statistical information on children missing out on education/children missing education was being held on a database.

 

After some discussion,

 

Resolved:

 

(1)          To receive a briefing session to present the new dataset on Elective Home Education and Children Missing Education.

 

(2)          To receive the Elective Home Education and Children Missing Education dataset annually at Children’s Select Committee.