Contact: Jack Cawthra (Education Officer - EOTAS) 01962 846537

E-mail: [email protected]

1. Summary

1.1. The following decisions are sought:

i. That the report be noted

ii. That comments on the format and content of the appendix be fed back to the Education Officer (EOTAS) to inform further reports.

2. Reasons

2.1. These decisions support Aim 1 of the Corporate Strategy, `Maximising life opportunities' through the monitoring of the levels of education provision for children who have been permanently excluded from school.

2.2. The Executive Member for Education has requested that he be provided with a termly, confidential report which details the education provision being made by the Hampshire EOTAS Service for pupils who are out of school because they are permanently excluded from school. (NB: Summarised data on emotionally vulnerable and unwell pupils out of school are also provided for information).

3. Other options considered and rejected - none.

4. Conflicts of interest declared by the decision maker or other Executive Member consulted - none

5. Dispensation granted by the Standards Committee - not applicable.

6. Reasons for the matter being dealt with if urgent - not applicable.

Approved by Date of decision

Councillor D.A.Kirk

Executive Member for Education

APPENDIX

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

EDUCATION OTHER THAN AT SCHOOL (EOTAS) SERVICE

Data on education provision for permanently excluded children, by the EOTAS service, for the Spring Term 2004.

The following data does not, for reasons of confidentiality, identify individual children but an interrogation of the database can be used to provide information and data associated with specific pupils.

The data does provide:

Summary data on EOTAS provision

Detailed data on all pupils.

Permanent Exclusions by NC Year Group - Spring 2004 (NB. The bullet points, below, correspond to the headings on the data sheets, reading from left to right).

The EOTAS Education Centre at which each pupil is registered (by reference to the Education Department Area).

National curriculum year group of each pupil.

The school from which they were permanently excluded or last attended.

The date of birth of each pupil.

The `effective date' of the permanent exclusion.

The date at which EOTAS provision began.

Whether or not provision is full-time.

The current level of provision for each pupil.

For those pupils not receiving full-time provision, the estimated time-scale where known, by when it will be in place.

For those pupils no longer in EOTAS provision, the reason why and the date at which provision ceased.

For each pupil, the length of time (in school terms) they have been in EOTAS provision.