Home educators in the Local Authority

Request

1) Please can you provide a copy of the initial contact letter sent to new home educators in your Local Authority?

2)a) Is the initial contact letter the same whether the parent has deregistered from a school, or been home-educating from the start and you become aware of the family some other way?

b)If they are different please provide a copy of both letters.

3)When was your EHE policy last updated?

4) Were local home educators involved directly in the process of reviewing the EHE policy when it was last updated.

Decision

1. Most correspondence goes out via an automated process. The email that is sent to parent is attached.

2. They are the same

3. The EHE protocol was last reviewed in April 2026

4. EHE parents were not directly involved the last time the EHE protocol was reviewed.

Should you require the attachment mentioned above please contact customerinformationservice@lincolnshire.gov.uk with the below reference number and this can be provided.
 

Reference number
FOI 17388789
Date request received
24/07/26
Date of decision
07/08/26