Adopted Child Maintenance Allowance

Dear A Williams

It has been recently brought to my attention that we have had an issue with some of the FOI requests that have been routed through the what do they know website.

I have received confirmation from the what do they know administration that there a small number of requests that did not route successfully due to our IT systems sifting out SPAM mail. Our IT department have now followed the guidance that the what do they know administration gave to ensure that all mail is received successfully.

On checking the correspondence from the site administration, this was one of the requests that had not been received, and I requested that it be re-directed, in order that I had the correct mailbox to respond to, as yet this has not been done.

Now I have details of the mailbox, below I will log the request and ensure it is actioned ASAP.

Kind Regards
Sharon

Sharon Crippin
Assistant Data Protection Officer
Resources Directorate
Legal & Risk
Wigan Council
Town Hall
Wigan
WN1 1YN
Tel: (01942) 827002 Internal: 2002
email: [email address]
www.wigan.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Williams

I am writing to respond to your freedom of information request. This
request has been handled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your request and our response in blue is detailed below.

First, how many families are receiving Adopted Child Maintenance
Allowances from your Council?
20 Families are receiving Financial support

Second, how many adopted children are involved? (Some families may have
more than one.)
33 children are placed with these families.
If you are unhappy with any aspect of this response, an independent senior
officer will review this decision. Please let me know if you would like to
arrange this.
You can also complain to the Information Commissioner, who is the
regulator for Freedom of Information. His website is
[1]www.informationcommisioner.gov.uk and his helpline number is 0303
1231113.
His staff may ask you to exhaust our internal complaints procedure if you
choose to complain to his office now.
I apologise for the delay in responding to this request, this is due to
the high volume of requests that are currently being received. If you need
any further information please do not hesitate in contacting me

Yours Sincerely

Sharon Crippin
Assistant Data Protection Officer
Resources Directorate
Legal & Risk
Wigan Council
Town Hall
Wigan
WN1 1YN
Tel: (01942) 827002 Internal: 2002
email: [email address]
[2]www.wigan.gov.uk

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