Home education policies and procedures

Please can you provide your current policies and procedures as of November 22 about the following:

Your current policy on children that are electively home educated, and your current procedures including any template letters used in relation to how you make initial contact with a new home education family, and how you make the decision in relation to if a child’s home education received is suitable or not.

This can be viewed online at Elective home education – Education and Families (devon.gov.uk)

Template letters can be seen here

Your current policy on EOTAS and current procedure for families to access EOTAS were appropriate for their child.

The ‘policy’ of Devon County Council is to apply the law as it is written. Provision is decided on an individual basis according to special educational needs and the law

Your current policy and procedure on personal budgets concerning education provision detailed in Education Health and Care Plans.

This can be viewed online at Personal budgets – Education and Families (devon.gov.uk)

Your current policy and procedures in relation to children missing education.

This can be viewed online at Children missing education – Support for schools and settings (devon.gov.uk)