RESPONSES TO THE LIMITED DfES CONSULTATION ON DRAFT HE GUIDELINES FOR LEAs - MARCH 2005

The consultation responses below were released by DfES in reply to an FOI request from Mike Fortune-Wood in February 2006. Mike is planning to publish summaries in his Home Education journal, and in a future book in the research series published for the Centre For Personalised Education.  They have been scanned and put through character recognition, so do expect them to be messy.  Information which could identify individuals was removed by DfES and some sections were blacked out in the documents for that reason.

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There is one more response to be scanned: Devon LEA. Then there are 5 other submissions which are not printed text and so not suitable for OCR, one from a parent, one from an anonymous LEA, one from the SW region group of LEAs, and 2 more from LEAs; North Lincs, and Staffordshire.