Additional funding for disabled children's services

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Scottish Government received £34 million Barnett Consequentials
from HM Treasury in 2007-08 arising from new money to implement the
Aiming High for Disabled Children strategy in England. Under the
Concordat, the Scottish Government has allocated that £34 million
to local authorities as part of the GAE settlement.

I would like to request the following information under the Freedom
of Information (Scotland) Act 2002:

1. Please provide information which shows how much your local
authority received as its allocated share of the £34million in:

a) 2008-2009 and
b) 2009-2010

In responding to this request, please consider all relevant
information which might accurately confirm the amount received,
including information contained within documentation such as
budgets and related papers; council and committee papers and
minutes; correspondence between and among officers, or between
officers and third parties; meeting papers; and any other relevant
papers and documents.

2. Please provide all information - including information contained
within budgets and related papers; council and committee papers and
minutes; correspondence between and among officers, or between
officers and third parties; meeting papers; and any other relevant
papers and documents - showing:

a) how you intended to spend your allocated share of the
£34million, and
b) how you actually spent your allocated share of the £34 million.

Please provide this information for both 2008-2009, and 2009-2010.

If you need any clarification in relation to these requests, please
let me know.

Yours faithfully,

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)

Dear Argyll & Bute Council,

I note that you have not acknowleged my FOI request relating to
additional funding for disabled children's services, nor responded
to that request within the statutory time limit, nor provided an
explanation for the delay.

Please provide a substantive response as well as an explanation for
the delay at the earliest opportunity.

Many thanks

Yours faithfully,

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)

Dear Argyll & Bute Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Argyll & Bute
Council's handling of my FOI request 'Additional funding for
disabled children's services'.

In particular I would like to know why the council failed to
respond to my request within the statutory time limit. I would
still like a substantive response to my request and look forward to
receiving this at the earliest opportunity.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ad...

Yours faithfully,

Kate Higgins (fSDC liaison project)