Mrs L Taylor

What Do They Know

Via email

Dear Mrs Taylor,

Re: Freedom of Information Request

Thank you for your recent request concerning the welfare checklists.

S1 of the Children's Act 1989 sets out the welfare checklist which the Court must consider when hearing an application for a care order. This is not that same checklist as the PLO. The PLO checklist is a pre-proceedings checklist under the PLO procedure.

From our preliminary assessment, we estimate that compliance with the first part of your request would exceed the appropriate costs limit under Section 12 of the FOIA as our information is not held in such a way that we can easily respond. It would take more than 18 hours to locate, identify and retrieve the information needed to give a full response.

In regard to part two of your request applications are signed by the Borough Solicitor on the instruction of the Director of Children's Services.

Most of the information that is provided in response to Freedom of Information Act 2000 requests will be subject to copyright protection. In most cases the copyright will be owned by The London Borough of Hounslow. However, the copyright in other information may be owned by another person or organisation, as indicated in the information itself.

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for example, by publishing the information, using it for marketing purposes or issuing copies to the public will require the permission of the copyright owner.

For information where the copyright is owned by another person or organisation, you must apply to the copyright owner to obtain their permission.

Should you feel that I have dealt with your request for information inappropriately or failed to take appropriate action within a reasonable timescale please contact the Complaints Team by any of the following methods:

By post to: The Complaints Team

Children's Services and Lifelong Learning

Civic Centre

Lampton Road

Hounslow

TW3 4DN

Telephone: 020 8583 2600

Email: [email address]

Fax: 020 8583 2613

Should you remain dissatisfied following the review under the complaints procedure I would advise you that you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner under Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Contact details for the Information Commissioner are as follows:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Fax: 01625 524 510
DX 20819

The Information Commissioner has also produced a guide "Your Right to know: how to complain" which is available from the publications line on 08453 091091 or www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk <http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk> "

Yours sincerely,

Melanie Lang

MELANIE LANG

CSLL Information Services Officer