Children missing education

The service identifies, tracks and follows up all children who are not receiving suitable education, with the aim of ensuring they are helped to access education as quickly as possible. There is continuing liaison with other agencies likely to encounter Children Missing Education and the public are invited to refer any child they understand not to be in education.

Contact:

Penny MacDonagh, Team Manager, Children Missing Education and in Year Admissions
Tel: (020) 8825 9447
Email: PMacDonagh@ealing.gov.uk

Policy:

Ealing's children missing education policy April 2011 (pdf)
Identifying, tracking and ensuring access to education for children missing or at risk of going missing from education.

Useful documents

Children not receiving a suitable education (word)
Statutory guidance from the DCSF, January 2009.

Guidance to high schools on removing pupils from the school roll (word)
Information on the Education) Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2011.

Guidance to primary schools on removing pupils from the school roll (word)
Information on the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2011.

Children missing education guidance - 2011 (word)
Main points for schools.

Children missing education policy - section B (word)
School and local authority procedures for pupils leaving and joining school.

CME forms (word)
Leaving school form for parents, school reasonable enquiry letters one and two, confirmation to school of entry of pupil's details on CME register, etc.