Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many children in each local authority area were not in full-time mainstream education and were in (a) part-time education, (b) pupil referral units, (c) home schooling and (d) other placements on the most recent date for which figures are available.

The number of pupils in part-time education, pupil referral units or alternative provision in each local authority can be calculated from the underlying school level data within the Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics: January 2015 statistics[1]. The department does not hold data which distinguish between home schooled pupils and those in other placements.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/schools-pupils-and-their-characteristics-january-2015 - the file named ‘SFR16_2015_Schools_Pupils_UD’ should be used to calculate part time pupils and those in pupil referral units, and the file named ‘SFR16_2015_LA_level_APcensus_UD’ for pupils in alternative provision.