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What % of children in UK are HEd?

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 20:38

DS is seven, has Aspergers and is very keen on percentages atm

I know there isnt an accurate answer for this but a rough idea would make him very happy!!

Q1 - What % of children in UK are HEd at present?

Q2 - What % of children with Aspergers (or SEN if that is far too specific!) are HEd?

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AMumInScotland · 03/04/2009 20:47

AFAIK this table link is the most detailed info available on the numbers of HE chidlren - it seems to have columns for SN as well. Good luck!

AMumInScotland · 03/04/2009 20:52

So 578 HE children with statements, and 181,703 overall

10862 HE children out of 4,999,257 overall

I make that -
0.3% of children with statements
0.2% of children overall

But obviously that's only children who are known to the LEA, and not all LEAs responded... the joys of statistics

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 20:57

Wow muminscotland thanks - really interesting

If that table is correct it would seem there are 578 he'd kids in Birmingham

12 in my county
Yet 90ish in the neighbouring county which is....

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 20:58

Gee thanks for your calculations!

Only 0.2% Oh dear!
I suggested to ds that is was 5%

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milou2 · 03/04/2009 21:01

Q1 I thought it was 1% of school age population and 2% in US.

Q2 No idea

FrannyandZooey · 03/04/2009 21:04

not terribly many home ed children are known to the LEA ime

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 21:04

it was

Milou - 1% is somewhat less depressing but still!
I wouldnt be surprised if it was higher in the US but given the amount of resources and press coverage HE gets I am still quite shocked it isnt higher - ie more like the 5% I imagined!

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FrannyandZooey · 03/04/2009 21:04

however it is nowhere near 5%

FrannyandZooey · 03/04/2009 21:05

did you really think 1 in 20 children were educated at home?
i am surprised

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 21:06

So how many unknowns would you add in F&Z?

I am as you can tell almost as keen on percentages as DS is!!!!

I think it is rather sad it isnt nearer 10% given how much so many children seem to suffer and are let down by their schools.

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 21:07

Well no when you put it like that I wouldnt no

0.2% is an incredibly small number isnt it though!!

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popsycal · 03/04/2009 21:10

short hijakck - amuminscotland - are you who i think you are????;)

AMumInScotland · 03/04/2009 21:14

I would have guessed something about 1% would be likely - and probably lower rather than higher. If I think of all the people I know with children, including colleagues etc, I don't know anyone else who HE's. Amongst people I've mentioned HE to, no-one has said they know anyone (else) who does it, and only one person I've mentioned it to had thought of doing it themself.

If it got up to 5% I think there'd be a lot more fuss about it TBH, and probably more regulation so, while I wish more people knew it was an option, i think if all the families who are not enjoying school did go for it, things would be quite different.

AMumInScotland · 03/04/2009 21:14

Er, that depends who you think I am....

popsycal · 03/04/2009 21:16

do you have 4 kids and like keith urban???

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 21:19

Popsy and Muminscotland - You are making me grin!

Havent you both been on MN longer than I have? So how come you havent 'met' each other before I have been here 4 years and always notice both of you iykwim!

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AMumInScotland · 03/04/2009 21:19

Nope - def not me, I've got an only.... Though the person I knew who had thought about it did have 4 kids, but I don;t think she ever did decide to HE them...

AMumInScotland · 03/04/2009 21:21

I've not been here anything like 4 years Yurtgirl - about 2 or so. I started lurking when I was starting to think about HE for DS, and that's coming up on 2 years now, so I'm still quite a newbie. I'm just always here

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 21:26

2 years, 4 years after it bit it starts to blend

As long as I have noticed the name for longer than a year I dont think of that person as a newbie

Plus I look to your posts cos you are HEing your teenage boy which is what I may well end up doing in 7 years time?

He is doing GCSEs isnt he? Can I ask what method you are using?

I found this only yesterday and it is grabbing my attention!

My ds is I suspect likely to want to do triple science which is a fairly scarey prospect for me as a non scientist and how to do it the HE way.

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AMumInScotland · 03/04/2009 21:31

Yes he's doing IGCSEs, but he's studying through an internet school, which is only just HE IYSWIM? I mean, legally it is, and we're responsible, but he logs on every morning and has a timetable and terms and teachers and homework and all that schooly stuff, so it's at the opposite end from autonomous. It suits him though - he likes learning in a group and he likes having teachers rather than going through books to start off on a subject. We looked at distance learning too - if he was more like me in how he likes to learn, we would probably have gone that route - I'll always try to read a book on the subject before I ask anyone else for pointers, so it would have suited my style. But not his, which is what matters!

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Yurtgirl · 03/04/2009 21:39

Interhigh?

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AMumInScotland · 04/04/2009 11:55

Yes, that's the one. He's done nearly 2 years with them now.

popsycal · 04/04/2009 13:45

I have been here since summer 2003

milou2 · 04/04/2009 21:10

Sorry to go back to my previous message, I don't know where I got the 1% in my head from and I've been doing some google searching. I can only find figures like 0.42%, so I shouldn't have butted in without proper info.

For the US the number being Home Educated looks like 1.5 million from online info.

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Yurtgirl · 04/04/2009 22:26

MIS - he he good guess huh!

I think I will have to tell ds the sorry news that very very few children are HE - lets settle on 1% or less

I am extremely that so many adults I know are so utterly dismissive about HE, when they know so little about it - They are completely ignorant but insist on sharing their ignorant views with me - arghhhhhhhhh

But what about socialisation?????????

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