Home Education and Child Protection Plans

1) How many children in your local authority area are being home educated?

2850 children in elective home education (EHE)
 
2) How many children in your local authority area are currently on a child protection plan?

559
 
2a) Of these, how many are home educated?

6 children on a child protection plan and EHE

11 children on a child in need plan and EHE

3) How many children in your local authority area are subject to an enquiry under Section 47 of the Children Act 1989?

76
 
3a) Of these, how many are home educated?

This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Personal Data).

Devon County Council can confirm the requested information is held; however, the Council cannot disclose personal information if releasing it would contravene any of the provisions in the Data Protection Act 2018.  In this instance release of this information may identify the children. This would risk a disclosure of their personal information and would contravene the first data protection principle. Therefore, the information is withheld.

4) How many home educated children in total are either on a child protection plan or subject to an enquiry under Section 47 of the Children Act 1989? (E.g. for a child for which both is true, counting them once)

This information is exempt from disclosure under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Personal Data).

Devon County Council can confirm the requested information is held; however, the Council cannot disclose personal information if releasing it would contravene any of the provisions in the Data Protection Act 2018.  In this instance release of this information may identify the children. This would risk a disclosure of their personal information and would contravene the first data protection principle. Therefore, the information is withheld.

 5) How many children in your local authority have you identified as being at risk of sexual exploitation?

10

This is a count of children who have had a completed Safer Me Assessment in the last 6 months where the Primary Risk was identified as Child Sexual Exploitation and the Risk Level was medium or high.