Home and formal schooling (FOI)

​Request

For the last three years, 2015, 2014, 2013, and broken down by year:

A

How many school age children were found never to have attended formal education, either as a percentage or actual figure.

B

How many children were home schooled during these years?

C

How many young people dropped out before finishing compulsory education?

Please define what the department considers compulsory education?

D

How many young people each year finished school without any formal qualifications?

Response

A

No children were found to have never attended formal education between 2013 to 2014 and 2015 to 2016.

B

This information is already publicly accessible. Please follow the link below for information relating to the numbers of children home schooled in 2013, 2014 and 2015:

Home Schooling - FOI

C

The number of students who did not complete compulsory education for the 2013 to 2014, 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016 academic years is less than 10.

Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to protect the identity of individual pupils. Therefore, the Education Department are unable to provide a breakdown by school or by year.

Compulsory Education is defined by the Education (Jersey) Law 1999:

Article 2 Compulsory school age

(1)      For the purposes of this Law, a child is of compulsory school age throughout the period beginning on the first day of the school term in which the child’s fifth birthday falls and ending on 30th June in the school year in which the child attains the age of 16 years, and the terms “below compulsory school age”, “upper limit of compulsory school age” and “over compulsory school age” shall be construed accordingly.

(2)      For the purposes of this Article, the following periods in any school year are school terms –

   (a)     the period beginning on 1st September and ending on 31st December;

   (b)     the period beginning on 1st January and ending on 30th April; and

   (c)     the period beginning on 1st May and ending on 31st August.

(3)      The States may by Regulations amend paragraphs (1) and (2) for the purpose of altering the period of compulsory school age.”

Education (Jersey) Law 1999

D

The number of children finishing education without any formal qualifications in the 2013 to 2014, 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016 academic years is less than 10.

Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to protect the identity of individual pupils. Therefore, the Education Department are unable to provide a breakdown by school, or by year.

Exemptions

Article 25 – Personal information

(1)     Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2)     Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a)     it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b)     its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.