Adopted Child Maintenance Allowance

Dear Ms Williams,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) - INFORMATION REQUEST

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for
information of 24 May 2011.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the
statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working
day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public
authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and
port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the
"Square Mile", ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a
whole. Please see the following link to a map on the CoL's website, which
shows the area covered:

[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/maps/boundary_map.htm.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1209
[2]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Ms Williams,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your request for information on 24^th May 2011 and
our acknowledgement of the same date, the City of London (CoL) responds as
follows.

Please can you inform me how many families are receiving Adopted Child
Maintenance Allowances from your Council? Nil

How many adopted children are involved? (Some families may have more than
one.) Nil

Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a very small resident
population of only about 9700 people.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[email address].

For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints procedure, please visit the
following page: [1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which
is located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's FOI
Complaints Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the
Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545700. Website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk/.

Please note that the Act applies to the City of London only as a local
authority, police authority and port health authority. Subject to any
other statutory provisions requiring the City of London to disclose
information, release of information outside the scope of the Act is
subject to the discretion of the City of London.

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Yours sincerely

Department of Community and Children's Services
020 7332 1638
[3]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear Ms Williams,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your email of 21^st July 2011 pointing a discrepancy
in the data provided on adoption data, the City of London (CoL) responds
as follows.

In our response to your request of 24^th May 2011, at the time we
correctly responded with the data as follows:

Please can you inform me how many families are receiving Adopted Child
Maintenance Allowances from your Council? Nil

How many adopted children are involved? (Some families may have more than
one.) Nil

It was after our response of 22^nd June to your request dated 24^th May
2011 that an assessment was carried out and it was confirmed from this
assessment that there was eligibility for a Child Maintenance Allowance
payment within the year 2010-2011, therefore the ANSWER: £4,040.28
(12/05/10-31/03/11) @ £12.47 per day, is correct. This payment has
been made retrospectively.

Because, uniquely, we are a LA with a very small population, we have to
exercise caution about what information we hold which, if disclosed, could
be linked with identifiable individuals. We can inform you that the figure
is below 5 however we are unable to provide the exact figure as we have a
safeguarding duty, and although you may argue that a child's identity
would not be compromised in this instance, we would have to emphasise
that the City of London `the Square Mile' is a small Local Authority with
a residential population of around 9,700 people, of this figure approx
1200 are within the age bracket of 0-19.

The CoL holds the copyright in this communication. Its supply does not
give a right to re-use in a way that would infringe that copyright, for
example, by making copies, publishing and issuing copies to the public or
to any other person. Brief extracts of any of the material may be
reproduced under the fair dealing provisions of the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely

Department of Community and Children's Services
020 7332 1638
[1]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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