Following requests from AHEd as well as individual home educators, we have received the following responses directly from the Local Authorities reagrding their response to the 2007 DfES consultation on home education guidelines.
It appears that some LA staff have sought to keep their responses confidential by calling them personal responses, despite in some instances using LA e-mail and snail mail contact details.
It has also come to light that some LAs met with consultants employed by DfES prior to the public consultation and therefore either felt no need to respond at the time of the public consultation, or they submitted comments they had formulated at their earlier meeting.
NB: WE NOW ALSO HAVE 14 PDF FILES FROM THE DCSF, RECEIVED BY A HOME EDUCATOR, CONTAINING THE 91 RESPONSES WHERE "LOCAL AUTHORITY" WAS TICKED AS THE RESPONSE CATEGORY. Of course many of those are duplicates of those below, but some are not. Some LAs told us they did not respond, yet the DCSF have sent a copy of their response. DCSF have supplied more than one response from some LAs that only sent us one response. Those PDF files and a list of their contents can be see here.
(The responses to the consultation from those in the category "others" can be seen here.)
Barnet
Barnsley (pdf files)
Bath and North East Somerset - did not respond to the consultation
Bedfordshire - responded but did not keep a copy
Bexley - responded but did not keep a copy
Birmingham
Blackburn - did not respond to the consultation
Blackpool - did not respond to the consultation
Bolton
Bournemouth
Bracknell Forest
Brent
BrightonAndHove
Bromley - did not respond to the consultation
Bury - did not respond to the consultation
Calderdale - did not respond to the consultation
Cambridgeshire
Camden - did not respond to the consultation
Cheshire
City of London - did not respond to the consultation
Cornwall - responded, but did not keep a copy of their response and have confirmed that they will not be retrieving a copy. However, a member of staff at Cornwall Council did respond under the category of "other" respondent - and that result, which may be the one mentioned above, will be available in a pdf file on the *Others* responses to Guidelines consultation page.
Croydon - did not respond to the consultation
Coventry - did not respond to the consultation
Cumbria - did not respond to the consultation
Darlington - did not respond to the consultation
Derbyshire
Devon
Doncaster
Dorset - responded but did not keep a copy
Dudley
Durham - did respond but do not appear to have kept a copy, further enquiries pending
Ealing - did not respond, but see FOI response on page
East Sussex
Essex
Gateshead - did not respond to the consultation - oh yes they did - see page.
Gloucestershire
Hackney - did not respond to the consultation
Halton - did not respond to the consultation
Harrow - did not respond to the consultation
Hartlepool - did not respond to the consultation
Havering
Hertfordshire
Hounslow - did not respond to the consultation
Kensington and Chelsea
Kent
Kingston - did not respond to the consultation
Lambeth
Lancashire
Leeds
Leicester - did not respond to the consultation
Leicestershire
Lewisham
Lincolnshire - informed us that they not respond to the consultation, but they did. See page.
Liverpool - did not respond to the consultation
Luton
Manchester - did not respond to the consultation
Medway
Milton Keynes - informed they did not respond to the consultation - see page for the response
Newcastle - did not respond to the consultation
Newham
Norfolk - did not respond to the consultation
North East Lincolnshire - have no record of returning a response - see page
North Lincolnshire - did not respond to the consultation
North Somerset - did not respond to the consultation
Northumberland
North Yorkshire
Nottingham City
Nottinghamshire
Oldham - did not respond to the consultation
Oxfordshire
Peterborough - did not respond to the consultation
Plymouth - did not respond to the consultation
Poole - did not respond to the consultation
Portsmouth - did not respond to the consultation
Reading
Redbridge - did not respond to the consultation
Redcar and Cleveland - did not respond to the consultation
Richmond - did not respond to the consultation
Rochdale - did not respond to the consultation
Rotherham
Rutland - did not respond to the consultation
Salford - did not respond to the consultation
Sandwell - responded but did not keep a copy
Sefton - did not respond to the consultation
Sheffield
Shropshire - did not respond to the consultation
Slough - did not respond to the consultation
Solihull
Somerset
Southampton
Southend - did not respond to the consultation
South Gloucestershire
South Tyneside LA - did not respond to the consultation
Southwark - did not respond to the consultation
St Helens - did not respond to the consultation
Staffordshire
Stockport
Stockton on Tees - did not respond to the consultation
Stoke-on-Trent - did not respond
Suffolk - responded, but did not keep a copy of their response
Sunderland - did not respond to the consultation
Surrey
Sutton - did not respond to the consultation
Swindon - did not respond to the consultation
Tameside
Telford and Wrekin - did not respond to the consultation
Torbay - did not respond to the consultation
Tower Hamlets
Trafford - did not respond to the consultation
Wakefield
Walsall 2 responses
Waltham Forest
Wandsworth
Warrington
Warwickshire
West Berkshire - did not respond to the consultation
Westminster - responded but did not keep a copy
West Sussex - responded to the consultation but will only send a summary of views expressed. This is included on the page but AHEd will continue to seek a copy of the actual response for news, research and to allow the home educating electorate of West Sussex to view what public servants have commented in a public consultation about home education.
Wigan
Wiltshire - do not appear to have responded to the consultation
Windsor and Maidenhead - responded electronically but did not keep a copy.
Wirral
Wolverhampton
Worcestershire
York - did not respond to the consultation
There are 150 Local Authorities in England.
According to the DCSF consultation report there were 91 responses from LAs.
Total number of LA responses available to view on this wiki/being retrieved from DCSF due to LA error, so far: 59*
(*those few responses that have had to be requested direct from DCSF due to authorities not keeping a copy will be displayed on the LA news pages as they are received.)
Total number of LAs so far informing us that they did not respond: 58
30 LAs yet to supply info in response to FOI request
(responses are reproduced on this wiki for the purpose of news, analysis and research.)
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