Adoptions

Reference : 1-1477408

Dear Melizza Moore

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002

Thank you for your information request dated 30/6/2010. This is being dealt with in terms of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

In order to co-ordinate your request, I am acting as your central point of contact and can be contacted on the telephone on 01343 563110 or by email at [Moray Council request email]

We have 20 working days to deal with your request from the date that we received it, but we will provide you with the information you are looking for at an earlier date where possible. Your request and our response will be posted on our disclosure log within the FOI section on our website. No personal information will be included.

Please note that The Moray Council owns copyright in the material supplied in response to your enquiry unless otherwise stated. The supply of documents and information by the Council does not give the person or organisation who receives them the right to re-use the documents in a way which would infringe copyright under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Such material is not to be used commercially without permission from the copyright holder.

Should this information be reused for commercial purposes the information will be subject to the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2005. Under these regulations the Council is entitled to charge a fee for the re-use of information.

If you are dissatisfied in any way with the manner in which the Council has dealt with your request for information, you are entitled to ask the Council to review its actions and decisions. If you would like a review of the decision please write to the Chief Executive, Moray Council, Council Office, High Street, Elgin IV30 1BX. A review panel will convene and has 20 working days to consider and respond to your appeal. All appeal requests must be made in writing.

If you are still dissatisfied with the outcome of the review, then you may appeal by writing to the Scottish Information Commissioner at Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9DS.

Further information on the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 can be obtained by visiting www.moray.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely

Emma Flett
Information Co-ordinator
Chief Executive's Office

The Moray Council
Council Offices
High Street
Elgin
IV30 1BX

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Reference : 1-1477408

Dear Melizza Moore

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (SCOTLAND) ACT 2002

Thank you for your information request concerning children forcibly adopted dated 30/6/2010. This is being dealt with under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002.

I can confirm that we do hold the information which would answer your request. However, in order to provide this information we would need to closely examine five year’s of minutes from adoption panels, and cross reference these with legal files and the other details of each adoption - which would essentially create new information – and redact details of a personal or confidential nature. We estimate that the cost of complying with your request would exceed the cost of £600.00 which is the limit specified by the Scottish Ministers in Scottish Statutory Instruments, 2004 numbers 376 and 467. If the cost of complying with a request is higher than £600.00 we do not have to supply the information under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 – Excessive Cost of Compliance.

The £600.00 represents the projected costs of a member of staff paid a maximum of £15.00 per hour taking 40 hours in locating, retrieving and providing the information requested. In reality the appropriate staff to carry out this work would cost the council more than the hourly rate provided for in the instrument.

If you are dissatisfied in any way with the manner in which the Council has dealt with your request for information, you are entitled to ask the Council to review its actions and decisions. If you would like a review of this decision please write to the Chief Executive, Moray Council, Council Office, High Street, Elgin, IV30 1BX. A review panel will convene and has 20 days to consider and respond to your appeal. All review requests must be made in writing.

If you are still dissatisfied with the outcome of this review, then you may appeal by writing to the Scottish Information Commissioner at Kinburn Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9DS.

Further information on the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 can be obtained by visiting www.moray.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely

Emma Flett

Information Co-ordinator
Chief Executive's Office

The Moray Council
Council Offices
High Street
Elgin
IV30 1BX

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