Home schooled children from 2021 to 2024 (FOI)Home schooled children from 2021 to 2024 (FOI)
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27 February 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
A
Please provide the yearly figures of how many students are being Home Schooled in Jersey from 2021 to date.
B
Of those numbers, how many of the children have a neurodiverse condition?
Response
A
Please find below the number of students registered with CYPES as Electively Home Educated (Home Schooled).
Please note the figures were taken from the spring term census:
| Year | Number |
| 2020 / 2021 | 57
|
| 2021 / 2022 | 61
|
| 2022 / 2023 | 70
|
| 2023 / 2024 | 84
|
B
The number of children that are Electively Home Educated (Home Schooled) who have a neurodiverse condition is not held in a recordable format; therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies.
Article applied
Article 3 - Meaning of "information held by a public authority"
For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –
(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or
(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.
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