A better way to do it.

[elizm]

www.swsurrey-home-ed.co.uk/resources/draftehepolicy.pdf

Surrey are also running a consultation on their HE policy at the moment.

Needs a couple of adjustments but not as much as ours.

[fionan]

Hi

Surrey is interesting. It has a similar number of EHE children to Lancs (Most Councils have far fewer)

In 2009 Surrey was working to a draft policy which hadn't been ratified. Locals submitted a petition and the matter was discussed at a Scrutiny Panel meeting in December 2009.

After several false starts, a Working Group was finally formed and decisions were taken about the direction of travel for the home education policy and procedures.
www.swsurrey-home-ed.co.uk/wordpress/2011/06/06/the-scc-ehe-policy-consulation/

It took till June 2011 for a reasonable draft policy to be produced. This was put to a consultation which ended in September this year. To the best of my knowledge, the new policy is now operational. It is clear from reading the documents that Surrey has capacity issues, since there is only 1 full-time member of staff in the home education service. Surrey was therefore strongly motivated to devise a policy which ticked all the boxes re safeguarding, consultation with stakeholders, improved outcomes, and cost-efficiency.

The key page with recommendationhttp://www.swsurrey-home-ed.co.uk/wordpress/2011/06/06/the-scc-ehe-policy-consulation/s is here www.swsurrey-home-ed.co.uk/wordpress/2011/06/06/the-scc-ehe-policy-consulation/

www.surreycc.gov.uk/legcom/CouncilP.nsf/f5fb086c73d64f3000256954004aed25/2d10cc6c869d68ef802576fd004fcc44?OpenDocument
www.swsurrey-home-ed.co.uk/scc.php

[fionan]

We had great meeting with the Council here in Sheffield yesterday afternoon. Room was packed. Home educating families. Service Managers. Support staff. 14-19 officer explaining how they can get funding for college. LA took away a list of things that people would like to get sorted. Going to have another session after Xmas focusing on stuff for families with younger children. Quite a few people at the meeting were "unknowns". LA keen to share info and offer services without forcing themselves down people's throats.