Education data

Summary

A request was made for statistics on educational enforcement actions (Notices to Satisfy, School Attendance Orders, and fines) between 2011 and 2019, separated by home education and school register status. The Department of Education, Sport and Culture disclosed that while 4 Notices to Satisfy were issued to home educators and 63 fines to school-registered children, no School Attendance Orders were issued to either group.

Key Facts

• The request covered the period from 2011 to 2019.
• Four Notices to Satisfy were issued to home educators.
• No Notices to Satisfy were issued to children on a school register.
• No School Attendance Orders were issued to either home educators or school-registered children.
• Sixty-three fixed penalty notices were issued to parents of children on a school register.

Data Disclosed

• 2011
• 2019
• 4
• 0
• 63
• £1000
• 2019-04-02
• 2019-05-01
• 784565

Original Request

Please can the department confirm How many Notice to Satisfies have been issued from 2011 to 2019 to Home Educators and to Children on a school register? Please can the department confirm how many School Attendance orders have been issued from 2011 to 2019 have been issued to Home Educators and to children on a school register? Please can the Deaprtment confirm how many fines not exceeding £1000 have been issued from 2011 to 2019 to Home Educators and to Children on a school register? Please can the data be separated to show Home Education and then Children on a school register. Thank you

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Full Response Text

Corporate Services Division Department of Education, Sport and Culture Hamilton House Peel Road, Douglas IM1 5EZ Telephone: (01624) 685808 Website: www.gov.im/dec Email: dec@foi.gov.im Our ref: 784565 1 May 2019

Dear ###,

We write further to your request which was received on 2 April 2019 and which states:

"Please can the department confirm how many Notice to Satisfies have been issued from 2011 to 2019 to Home Educators and to Children on a school register? Please can the department confirm how many School Attendance orders have been issued from 2011 to 2019 have been issued to Home Educators and to children on a school register? Please can the Department confirm how many fines not exceeding £1000 have been issued from 2011 to 2019 to Home Educators and to Children on a school register? Please can the data be separated to show Home Education and then Children on a school register. Thank you"

Our response to your request is as follows: I have detailed below the information that is currently held by the Department. Notice to Satisfy The Department has written to parents requiring them to provide confirmation that their child/children are receiving suitable education on the following number of occasions: Home Education = 4 School register = 0

School Attendance Orders The Department has served the following number of school attendance orders to parents requiring them to register their child/children at a school named in the school attendance order: Home education = 0 School register = 0 Fixed Penalty Notice The total number of fixed penalty notices issued to parents of children who are registered at a school and have failed to attend regularly are: Home education = 0 School register = 63

Please quote the reference number 784565 in any future communications.

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Yours sincerely

Freedom of Information Coordinator