Please provide the following information:

1. The number of home educated children in your local authority area as at school census date (5th October 2023) or, if not available, the nearest date to that day.
216

2. Please state whether or not your local authority has experienced a 'spike' (unusually high additional number) of removals from the roll from 5th October 2023 to 20th October 2023 and if yes, please indicate the number of additional removals from roll in that period.
No, approximately the same.