Research

Research into EHE carried out Jan-May 2014 by Cheryl Moy of Educational Freedom.

The following figures were gained through FOI requests to each LA. Due to each LA collating this information differently the figure is only approximate.

Numbers of known Home Educated children.

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	home ed 2010	school 2010	home ed 2013	school 2013	home ed 2016
Barking and dagenham	86	33,630	93	37,862	?
Barnet	66	55,800	100	59,503	?
Barnsley	70	32,650	94	32,550	?
Bath and North East Somerset	60	29,250	60	29,134	?
Bedford	?	29,420	48	20,687	?
Bexley	111	44,910	126	43,042	?
Birmingham	350	183,020	592	190,663	?
Blackburn	53	27,060	65	27,227	?
Blackpool	63	20,610	69	20,268	?
Bolton	86	47,710	111	48,804	?
Bournemouth	157	21,730	174	22,762	?
Bracknell Forest	40	18,450	40	19,620	?
Bradford	119	92,860	149	97,742	?
Brent	150	42,689	150	43,408	?
Brighton and Hove	143	34,990	171	35,960	?
Bristol	112	53,510	134	58,509	?
Bromley	52	51,280	122	52,496	?
Buckinghamshire	230	84,170	373	86,776	?
Bury	20	29,880	54	30,160	?
Calderdale	43	35,880	54	36,694	?
Camden	4	29,200	70	31,140	?
Cambridgeshire	325	86,490	586	89,211	?
Central Bedfordhshire	150	38,770	150	39,916	?
Cheshire East	111	54,000	127	53,659	?
Cheshire west and Chester	174	51,500	146	51,023	?
City of London	1	2,260	1	2,316	?
Cornwall	320	72,390	413	69,249	?
Coventry	49	51,320	45	53,851	?
Croydon	120	58,260	164	61,950	?
Cumbria	261	74,550	251	72,163	?
Darlington	?	15,520	108	15,610	?
Derby	120	39,700	130	41,068	?
Derbyshire	426	112,750	519	111,543	?
Devon	634	103,610	521	102,135	?
Doncaster	200	47,620	205	47,930	?
Dorset	184	59,880	180	60,234	?
Dudley	103	47,490	128	47,098	?
Durham	73	73,440	187	72,271	?
Ealing	110	51,460	216	41,866	?
East Riding	151	49,380	136	48,495	?
East Sussex	315	70,260	439	70,597	?
Enfield	90	5,200	124	56,261	?
Essex	661	207,300	625	208,663	?
Gateshead	36	29,240	48	29,383	?
Gloucestershire	302	90,690	385	91,040	?
Greenwich	120	39,980	220	41,667	?
Hackney	43	32,360	85	38,644	?
Halton	52	17,880	53	18,191	?
Hammersmith and fulham	63	23,650	80	25,534	?
Hampshire	366	183,190	486	184,685	?
Haringey	?	28,380	188	39,994	?
Harrow	90	35,090	73	32,500	?
Hartlepool?	12	15,090	14	14,922	?
Havering	78	37,060	84	37,602	?
Herefordshire		24,480		24,390	?
Hertfordshire	381	197,900	430	203,552	?
Hillingdon	85	48,240	210	51,140	?
Hounslow	53	37,930	72	41,174	?
Hull	113	36,420	115	36,853	?
Isles of Scilly	2	280	2	275	?
Isle of Wight	150	18,900	190	18,139	?
Islington	35	22,950	36	23,904	?
Kensington and chelsea	37	22,900	28	24,738	?
Kent	847	230,680	1,160	180,823	?
Kingston upon thames	60	26,080	60	27,453	?
Kirklees	100	64,720	120	66,123	?
Knowsley	22	22,210	30	20,807	?
Lambeth	82	33,020	50	35,828	?
Lancashire	423	168,310	502	170,145	?
Leeds	115	113,370	134	115,993	?
Leicester	144	49,090	310	51,064	?
Leicestershire	135	99,910	135	99,522	?
Lewisham	156	38,500	249	41,441	?
Lincolnshire	384	105,120	432	105,905	?
Liverpool	39	69,210	154	68,279	?
Luton	109	32,800	94	35,123	?
Manchester	83	72,170	209	77,386	?
Medway	247	43,620	376	44,413	?
Merton	94	28,740	113	25,527	?
Middlesborough	34	22,470	34	22,900	?
Milton Keynes	?	40,510	144	43,160	?
Newcastle upon tyne	66	40,410	84	40,971	?
Newham	90	51,470	165	55,271	?
Norfolk	130	115,610	532	116,069	?
North East Lincolnshire	50	23,660	94	23,688	?
North Lincolnshire	16	23,900	68	23,697	?
North Somerset	157	29,330	155	29,646	?
North Tyneside	30	30,420	35	30,213	?
North Yorkshire	186	90,220	208	89,499	?
Northamptonshire	62	110,610	259	113,321	?
Northumberland	40	48,120	90	47,214	?
Nottingham	120	41,690	172	43,563	?
Nottinghamshire	508	117,090	589	116,575	?
Oldham	34	41,280	71	42,018	?
Oxfordshire	241	100,300	266	105,704	?
Peterborough	90	29,830	101	32,627	?
Plymouth	147	38,280	143	38,920	?
Poole	67	19,640	68	20,071	?
Portsmouth	50	26,690	130	27,012	?
Reading	43	50,390	50	21,695	?
Redcar and Cleveland	47	22,140	46	21,543	?
Redbridge	64	52,390	105	55,656	?
Richmond upon Thames	58	30,050	57	32,039	?
Rochdale	126	32,760	118	32,964	?
Rotherham	80	42,920	122	42,949	?
Rutland	6	7,040	4	7,347	?
Salford	33	33,550	37	35,557	?
Sandwell	165	51,070	145	53,237	?
Sefton	73	44,190	75	43,138	?
Sheffield	176	76,020	249	77,789	?
Shropshire	229	43,370	233	43,401	?
Slough	26	23,770	47	26,592	?
Solihul	50	38,780	51	39,322	?
Somerset	248	76,430	482	76,242	?
south gloucestershire	170	40,130	176	34,000	?
South Tyneside	38	21,310	47	20,977	?
Southampton	92	28,610	165	29,861	?
Southend	26	28,150	98	29,100	?
Southwark	67	41,330	74	43,749	?
St Helens	35	26,290	35	26,213	?
Staffordshire	334	123,970	378	124,187	?
Stoke on trent	46	34,880	74	35,984	?
Stockport	52	42,470	75	43,259	?
Stockton on tees	39	31,050	67	31,341	?
Suffolk	314	105,080	342	107,313	?
Sunderland	78	41,590	75	4,050	?
Surrey	776	178,750	908	183,903	?
Sutton	60	33,710	85	33,600	?
Swindon	99	29,340	88	30,777	?
Tameside	37	34,680	54	34,686	?
Telford	112	27,320	110	27,419	?
Thurrock	66	23,280	120	25,025	?
Torbay	77	19,070	80	19,454	?
Tower Hamlets	80	40,240	119	42,890	?
Trafford		38,690		40,171	?
Wakefield	108	53,610	135	53,521	?
Walsall	174	48,210	184	48,400	?
Wandsworth	45	39,470	62	41,003	?
Waltham Forrest	?	39,530	130	42,654	?
Warrington	45	29,940	65	31,341	?
Warwickshire	144	80,720	241	82,427	?
west berks	66	28,280	73	25,270	?
West sussex	417	114,210	433	117,593	?
Westminster	76	28,130	72	21,631	?
Wigan	109	45,140	173	44,874	?
Wiltshire	122	70,480	210	71,542	?
Windsor and Maidenhead		24,750		25,957	?
Wirral	55	54,010	68	50,479	?
Wokingham	35	25,920	67	27,182	?
wolverhampton	132	39,740	168	40,434	?
Worcestershire	218	84,880	221	85,055	?
York	53	25,550	57	26,214	?

	19,590	8,000,919	26,015	8,061,421
		0.24% of school age children are known to be EHE		0.32% of school age children are known to be EHE

Please note any figures left blank are due to the LA not responding to the FOI, these will be added as and when they respond.

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE ORDERS SERVED

The figures for School Attendance Orders shoulThe following figures were gained through FOI requests to each LA. Due to each LA collating this information differently the figure is only approximate.d only include those served on existing Home Educated children. The figures for S.437(1) Notice to Satisfy are not accurate as many LAs do not hold this information.
For the coding used please scroll to the bottom of the screen.

	SAOs 2009-2010	SAO 2010-2011	SAO 2011-2012	SAOs 2012-2013	SAOs 2013-2014	s437 (1)	SAO details
Barking and dagenham	0	0	0	0		?
Barnet	1	0	0	1	<5	21
Barnsley	0	0	0	0		0
Bath and North East Somerset	0			0
Bedford	0			0
Bexley	0	0	0	2		?	SPC
Birmingham	0	0	1	0		1	EHEP
Blackburn	?	1	0	0	0	0	CDP
Blackpool	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bolton	0	0	0	0	0	5
Bournemouth	0	0	0	0		0
Bracknell Forest	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bradford	0	0	0	0		0
Brent	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brighton and Hove	0	–	–	–	–	–	SPC
Bristol	2			1			2SAC ,1SPC
Bromley	0	0	0	0	0	0
Buckinghamshire	0			0
Bury	0	0	0	0		?
Calderdale	0	0	0	0		0
Camden	0			0
Cambridgeshire	0	0	0	1	35		SAC
Central Bedfordhshire	?	0	4	2	0	24	4m. 2EHE,
Cheshire East	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cheshire west and Chester	0	0	0	1	1		1EHEP, 1ONGOING
City of London	0			0
Cornwall	0	0	1	0	0	1
Coventry	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croydon	0	0	0	0	2	6	no info
Cumbria	0	4	4	0	0	?	EHEP
Darlington	0	0	0	0		0
Derby	0	0	0	0	0	0
Derbyshire	0	0	0	5	11	?
Devon	0	2	0	2	4	9	2EHEC, 6FC
Doncaster	4	0	5	1		?	4SM, 3EHEP, 1 revoked on medical grounds, 1SPC,
Dorset	?	?	?	?	?	?	less than 5 is all they will say for all the years
Dudley	0			2			2 SAC
Durham	5	9	5	4	2	48	14EHEP, 11SAC
Ealing	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Riding	0	0	0	0		0
East Sussex	1	0	0	0	1		family refused to engage, child went to school, dereg’d again parents engaged.
Enfield	0	0	0	0	0	2	M
Essex	0	2	6	3	1	95	11 C 1EHE C P
Gateshead	0	0	0	0		?
Gloucestershire	0	0	0	0	4	3	recent SAOs no action taken yet
Greenwich	0	0	0	1	0
Hackney	?	6	0	0	4	8	1Pr, 2Cwithdrawn, 1EHEP , 1m police,
Halton	0	0	0	0		0
Hammersmith and fulham	0	0	1	1	0		EHEpr refused to comply to meet
Hampshire	0	0	0	0	1	?	SPC
Haringey	0	0	4	0	0	6	3SPC, 1SAC
Harrow	?	?	?	0	0	?
Hartlepool	0	0	0	0		0
Havering	0	0	0	0		0
Herefordshire	0	0	0	0	0	refused
Hertfordshire	0	0	0	0	0	?
Hillingdon	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hounslow	0			1			SPC
Hull	0			0
Isles of Scilly	0			0
Isle of Wight	0	0	0	0		?
Islington	0			5			C EHE
Kensington and chelsea	0	0	0	0	1	3	in process SAO served as family refused to meet
Kent	0	5	5	0		5
Kingston upon thames	0	0	1	0	0	2
Kirklees	0	0	0	0		0
Knowsley	1	0	0	2	0	3
Lambeth	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lancashire	0	2	5	1	3	27	5SPC, 2M 1EHEM, 1 now looked after by LA, 2 CME.
Leeds	–	–	–	–	–	?	refused as no records kept
Leicester	0	1	0	5	3	51	1DLA, 2M, 5SPC, 1 case ongoing to court.
Leicestershire	0	0	2	6	0	27	2CEHEpr. 1M, 1SPC, 1SAC, 1PrDLA
Lewisham	1	3	8	0	5	39	4SAC,1CM, 1CEHE, 1Care, 5 not in court yet
Lincolnshire	0	0	0	0	2	21	SPC
Liverpool	0	0	0	0		0
Luton	0	0	0	0		0
Manchester	0	0	0	0	0	0
Medway	0	0	0	2		2	SAC
Merton	0			0			2SPC
Middlesborough	0	0	0	0	0	0
Milton Keynes	0	0	0	0		2
Newcastle upon tyne	0	0	0	0	0	8
Newham	0	0	0	2	0	?	2EHEP
Norfolk	0	0	0	0	0	?
North East Lincolnshire	0	0	0	0		0
North Lincolnshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Somerset	0	1	0	1	0	2	1SAC, 2SPC
North Tyneside	0	0	1	0		?	SPC
North Yorkshire	0	0	0	0		0
Northamptonshire	0	0	0	0		0
Northumberland	0	0	0	0		?
Nottingham	0	0	1	0	2	27	SAC
Nottinghamshire	0	1	0	0		1	SAC
Oldham	2	0	0	0	0	2	SAC
Oxfordshire	0	0	0	0		4
Peterborough	0	0	0	0	0	0
Plymouth	0			0
Poole	0	0	0	0	1	0	SPC
Portsmouth	0	0	0	1	1	?	SPC
Reading	0	0	0	0		2	no details
Redcar and Cleveland	0	0	0	0	0	0
Redbridge	0	0	0	0		0
Richmond upon Thames	0	0	0	1	0	1	SPC
Rochdale	0	0	0	0	0	?
Rotherham	0			3			SPC
Rutland	0	0	0	0	0
Salford	0			0
Sandwell	0	0	0	1	0		SPC
Sefton	0	0	0	1	0	3	SPC
Sheffield	0	0	0	0		0
Shropshire	0	0	0	0		10
Slough	0	0	0	0	0	0
Solihul	0	0	0	0		?
Somerset	0	0	0	0
south gloucestershire	1	0	0	0		2	SAC
South Tyneside	0	0	0	0		0
Southampton	0			0
Southend	0	0	0	0	0	0
Southwark	0	0	0	0	0	0
St Helens	0	0	0	0	0	0
Staffordshire	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stoke on trent	0	0	0	0	0	?
Stockport	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stockton on tees	0	0	0	0	0	0
Suffolk	?	?	0	4		56	SPC , EHEP no numbers for each catergory
Sunderland	0	0	0	0		0
Surrey	0	0	5	5	0	5	SPC
Sutton	0	0	0	0	0	7
Swindon	0	0	0	0		0
Tameside	0	0	0	0	0	0
Telford	0	0	0	0		?
Thurrock	0	5	5	0		5
Torbay	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tower Hamlets	0	2	0	1	0	21	SPC
Trafford
Wakefield	0	0	0	0	0	0
Walsall	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wandsworth	0	0	3	0		8	1SPC, 2EHE
Waltham Forrest	0	0	0	0	0	0
Warrington	0	0	0	0		2
Warwickshire	0	0	1	0	0	1	prEHE then S
west berks	0	0	0	0	0	?
West sussex	0	0	0	0	2	2	still in process
Westminster	0	2	0	0	0	1	EHEP, DLA
Wigan	0	0	0	0		?
Wiltshire	0	0	1	2	0	?	2SPC, 1 parent employed a tutor.
Windsor and Maidenhead	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wirral	3	3	3	0	3	3
Wokingham	0	0	0	0	?	0
wolverhampton	0	0	0	0	?	0
Worcestershire	0	5	0	0	0	47	refused due to low figures, LA revoked SAO
York	0	0	0	0	0	?

Code for the above charts:

Blue figures mean a less than figure was given as LAs are not obliged to provide figures less than 5 if they feel people could be identified. The figure used is the maximum it could be.

SPC = School prior to court

SAC = School after court

SM = School after they moved

EHEP = continues to home ed after providing proof

CME = Child Missing Education

CDM = court action taken but dropped as moved out of the area.

M = no action taken, family moved

Pr =prosecuted

FC = Failed to comply

DLA= Dropped as child reached school leaving age.

? = figure not available

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