1. How many children of compulsory school age are known to live in your Local Authority (LA) as of 1st September 2024?
As of 1st September 2024 there are approximately 105,470 children of compulsory school age living in Devon. This is based on NHS Registrations data.
2. How many state school places for children of compulsory school age are there in your LA boundaries?
Devon has 105,606 state funded school places. This is based on the Published Admission Number or the Admission limit of a school and the registered number of planned places at Devon special schools.
3. How many independent school places for children of compulsory school age are their in your LA Boundaries?
Devon County Council does not hold this information.
4. How many compulsory school age children residing in your LA are categorised as being children missing education (CME) as of 1st September 2024?
103.
5. How many compulsory school age children are electively home educated (EHE) as of 1st September 2024?
2430.
6. 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?
151.
7. 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?
Compliance with this request would exceed the appropriate cost limit under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which is £450 or 18 hours of officer time. To calculate the average amount of days it takes from the parental request until the child is enrolled in a school, we would have to check all the applications, work out how many days it took from application to when they were placed on roll and then finding an average. In 2021 alone, there are over 5800 entries so at a minute at a time that is 5800 minutes and 96 hours.
Under the Act, there is a duty to provide advice and assistance as to how a request can be refined to fit within the appropriate limit. Unfortunately, due to the way the data is held, this is not possible for this request.
8. If a parent was EHE 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?
Devon County Council does not hold this information as the data doesn’t differentiate between children that were EHE and CME.
9. 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?
Devon County Council does not hold this information as the data doesn’t differentiate between children applying from independent sector who have been withdrawn from school.
10. Does the LA facilitate any education for the child between the parental request and school enrolment?
Yes.
11. If no why not?
N/A.