Community Directorate

Education Service

Boclair House

100 Milngavie Road

Bearsden

Your Ref: G61 2TQ

Our Ref: GC/PD/0001L Telephone: 0141 578 8709

If `phoning or calling ask for Gordon Currie Fax: 0141 578 8653

Ext No: 8709 e-mail: [email address]

7 December 2009

TO: [FOI #22854 email]

Kate Higgins, FSDC Liaison Project

Dear Ms Higgins

FOI Request: Spending on Additional Support for Learning

Thank you for your FOI request regarding the above subject. I have collated the information you require for question 1. However, I am unable to provide you with the answers to your other questions to due cost. Please refer to my below explanation.

Question 1: Please provide information confirming how much money your local authority has spent or is spending on implementing the Additional Support Needs framework (as provided for in the Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Act (2004)) in:

a) 2006-07 - £7,103

b) 2007-08 - £7,037

c) 2008-09 - £7,558

d) 2009-10 - £7,777 (estimate)

The resources required to comply with your full request would involve resources that would incur costs in excess of the upper limit of £600 as set out in the Fees Regulations of Annex 3 of the Code of Practice on the Discharge of Functions by Public Authorities under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and, as a result, I am refusing to release this information.

The cost is calculated as follows: 12 pieces of information (x) estimated time in minutes to go through/find each piece of information (60 minutes) (x) by 4 years (x) by the maximum hourly rate of £15.

12 x 1hr x 4 x £15 = £720

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your information request and wish to make a complaint please contact complaints@ eastdunbarton.gov.uk. Full details of East Dunbartonshire Council's complaint procedures are available on our website at www.eastdunbarton.gov.uk.

Alternatively if you are dissatisfied with East Dunbartonshire Council's decision to withhold information, or the way in which we have dealt with your request, you are entitled to require the Council to review its decision. In order for a review to take place you must:

Freedom of Information Officer

East Dunbartonshire Council

William Patrick Library

2-4 West High Street

Kirkintilloch

G66 1AD

Email: [East Dunbartonshire Council request email]

Tel: 0141 775 4571

The review will be handled by staff who were not involved in the original decision. You will receive notice of the results of the review within 20 working days of receipt of your request. If you are still dissatisfied with the Council's response to your requirement for a review, you are entitled, under Section 47 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 to apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision as to whether your request has been dealt with by the Council in accordance with Part 1 of the Act. Your application must be submitted in writing or in another form capable of being used for subsequent reference, and should be submitted before the expiry of six months after the date of your receipt of this letter. Your application should be sent to the Commissioner at the following address:-

Scottish Information Commissioner

Kinburn Castle

Doubledykes Road

St Andrews

KY16 9DS

Telephone: 01334 464611

Email: [email address]

However you must request an internal review by the Council before a complaint can be directed to the Scottish Information Commissioner. If you have any further queries regarding this process or your Freedom of Information request, please do not hesitate to contact the Freedom of Information Officer whose details are given above.

Yours sincerely

GORDON CURRIE

Head of Education

c.c. Stephen Armstrong, FOI Officer

Claire Robertson, Public Affairs

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GORDON CURRIE

HEAD OF EDUCATION