tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post5933561610695546009..comments2024-03-20T00:30:11.702-07:00Comments on Home Education Heretic: Still more about rates of abuse among home educated childrenSimon Webbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10865289865412656573noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post-88467783828555544802013-10-15T09:44:06.652-07:002013-10-15T09:44:06.652-07:00Apologies.Please can I revise that to 12 victims o...Apologies.Please can I revise that to 12 victims of abuse per 1000 as opposed to your theoretical 10, which would be an increased risk of 20% not 25%. It's been nagging at me all day that it wasn't right but I only just got round to taking another look<br /><br />(My maths for that is 9.5 at standard and .5 at sen with a 5x risk which would be 2.5) 12/10 = 1.2, hence a 20% additional risk as a baseline.)<br /><br />Only, again it isn't, because the school population will also have an incidence of disability and that is why 2.8% of students have SSEN. (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/special-educational-needs-in-england-january-2011)<br /><br /><br />I think that OFSTED self-selected sample muddied the waters considerably, and that the true difference in figures is interesting in itself.<br /><br />In a schooled population of 20,000 you'd expect 560 children with SSEN. In a home educated population we know there were 1000. That figure brings home to me, at least, how many people have gone through a lot to get statements because they thought it would make school possible and then found that they didn't. Which in turn probably explains a lot about their attitude to being regulated by the same people they perceive as failing their children while they were in the school system and why establishing a good working relationship with the LA may simply not be possible for those 438 because of everything that happened before deregistration.<br /><br />What we cannot assume without data that doesn't seem to exist is what those disabilities are, and without knowing that we cannot work out what the likelihood of abuse is.<br /><br />It does, however, occur to me that anyone who wanted to reduce that gap between children with SSEN in the HE population and those in the school population could do so by tackling the problems that make parents deregister children rather than turning a blind eye for the sake of saving money or preserving good relationships with schools or actively encouraging parents to remove inconvenient and expensive children from the system.<br /><br /><br />Apologies again<br />Anne<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881402584568285627.post-68663290485594678222013-10-15T02:43:01.314-07:002013-10-15T02:43:01.314-07:00My recollection was that we established yesterday ...My recollection was that we established yesterday that we did not know how many home educated children there were, how many of them had special needs or disabilities and what those special needs or disabilities might be.<br /><br />We also established that FOI information showed that 20000 children were known to LA's of which 1000 have Statements of Special Educational Needs, and that some of those special educational needs would be to allow them to function in a school environment, and would not impact on their lives to the same extent out of school.<br /><br />So, we established that the actual figure is likely to be a maximum of 5%, which brings your abuse rate down to 25%.<br /><br />We also established that the research you quoted referred to children with the most severe disabilities and would therefore be less likely to apply to children with dyslexia or dyspraxia or high functioning autism where there are not learning difficulties. According to research done in 2011 by Fombonne 56.1% of autistic children do not have learning difficulties. Emerson and Baines found it to be 52.1% http://www.autism.org.uk/about-autism/myths-facts-and-statistics/statistics-how-many-people-have-autism-spectrum-disorders.aspx)<br /><br />I would suggest that that brings the figure down still further, but I wouldn't want to give figures for it because I have no reliable data. If you can signpost me to some, I'll happily do the maths.<br /><br />(And does anyone want to guess where my son gets his pedantic maths genes from?)<br /><br />Anne<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com