Please can you provide under the Freedom of Information Act:

1. Please provide any job advertisements you have published regarding any roles covering working with the home education community this is sometimes known as ‘Education Welfare Officer’ or ‘home education officers’ since September 2017 to the date you receive this letter. Please include descriptions of roles and responsibilities expected with that role.
See attached JD, Recruitment to post in June 2019 with start date for September 2019. Adverts are not available/held for that recruitment.

2. What funding and / or services, if any, is your Local Authority able to provide support for Elective Home Education (EHE) children/families? Examples might include educational psychology, dyslexia assessment, exam funding, exam centre provision/access. Please provide details for the period September 2017 to December 2020.
None.

3. Is your Local authority using the Covid recovery fund for supporting children and young people who are EHE? If so for how many.
None.

4. The Number of children whose parents have successfully applied for and obtained EHCP while home educated and not from school. Please provide data for the following academic years: 2017-18; 2018-19; 2019-20 and 2020-21 (up to December 2020).
2017-18: 0, 2018-19: Unknown, 2019-20: 0, 2020: 1.

5. How frequently does the local authority request request updates of home education provision from parents.
At least annually where the education is deemed as suitable and effective.

6. Please provide copies of any proformas and template letters that are sent to or used in relation to home educators.
We do not hold proformas as correspondence is personalised to individual cases.