Disclosure Log
Children withdrawn from formal education (FOI/6043)
Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 30 June 2025
Dear *****
Freedom of Information Request – Ref: FOI/00006043
Thank you for your email of 28 June 2025 where you requested information about electively home educated children.
The information you requested is:
The number of children who were withdrawn from formal education for the purposes of elective home education (EHE), and who had an EHCP with your council at the time of deregistration, between the following time periods:
1st January - 31st December 2020 - 34
1st January - 31st December 2021 - 62
1st January - 31st December 2022 - 111
1st January - 31st December 2023 - 121
1st January - 31st December 2024 - 125
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If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information – Team Manager, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/foi-and-eir-complaints/.
Yours sincerely
Colin Sawers (He/Him)
Information Case Officer | Customers, Complaints and Information
Chief Executive"s Department | Nottinghamshire County Council
County Hall | Loughborough Road | West Bridgford | NOTTINGHAM | NG2 7QP
Tel: (0115) 977 3714