Dear Sir or Madam,

Further a recent article, quoted below, from the Guardian
Newspaper,[1] can you please email me an electronic copy of the
following information:

1)A copy of any or the actual Freedom of Information Act request
made by the Guardian Newspaper, that forms the substantive basis of
said article, together with copies of any and all correspondence
and information shared between yourselves and the Guardian
Newspaper connected to this request, as well as a copy of all the
information disclosed.

“Suspected victims of child trafficking from Asia, Africa and the
Middle East are being smuggled through Britain's leading ports and
airports at an accelerating rate, new figures obtained under the
Freedom of Information Act reveal.”

: Your correspondence :

Please ensure that any of your general correspondence,
acknowledgements or holding letters etc are included or
cut-and-pasted into the body of the email messages, using plain
text, rather than as attachments. As this will mean your
correspondence is much easier to access, read and respond to.

: Accessibility :

When providing any information disclosures please provide it in the
original unrestricted format such as:

a. MS Word .doc or Rich Text Text .rtf format or equivalent
(suitable for disclosure of email messages)

b.Spreadsheets in MS Excel .xls format or equivalent

c.Presentations in MS Powerpoint .ppt format or equivalent

or converted to Portable Document Format (PDF), ONLY if none of the
above formats are available

if you only have a paper version (hard copy) available, please
provide a Digital Photo Copier Scanned version in PDF format. If
you do provide disclosures in PDF from a Digital Photo Copier Scan,
please state that you have done so because no other format, such as
a, b or c above, are available.

If you need to redact text elements of any disclosure can you
please ensure that the rest of text based information remains
accessible to a Screen Reader.
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Please ensure any electronic disclosures are absolutely free of any
Document Restrictions and Encryption or Passwords, as this is
likely to render them less usable on a general basis and more
specifically, inaccessible to Assistive Technology.

Please do not send any information in compilation archive formats,
such as .zip.

Providing correspondence and disclosed information via these means
will help ensure that text based information is accessible for use
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and will prevent any further and separate representations under the
Disability Discrimination Act. If you are unable to meet these
reasonably practicable accessibility requests please state why and
provide a copy of any internal information, such as a policy relied
upon that would explain such a decision.

Reference:

[1] Child trafficking into Britain accelerating, figures show
• Victims hidden in lorries or pass with false papers
• Case workers say rescued are told to flee care centres
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr...

Yours faithfully,

Cassidy, J

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Dear Sir or Madam,

In your response to the Guardian Newspaper related information can
you please confirm or deny
whether or not West Sussex County Council is planning to, is
piloting or is using any multi-agency safeguarding children toolkit
for responding to the trafficking of children? As well as any
information that confirms or denies that it has fully implimented
the national referral mechanism for identifying and recording
victims of trafficking and ensuring that they are provided with
appropriate support wherever they are in the UK., as required from
April 2009, under the Council of Europe Convention on action
against Trafficking in Human Beings and in light of articles such
as:

Sunday, 2 December, 2001
'UK child trafficking rising'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1682754.stm

Wednesday, 30 August 2006
UK warned over child trafficking
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5...

Thursday 20 September 2007
Vanished: the child victims of trafficking
180 children missing from social care after being brought illegally
to UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/sep/20...

Yours faithfully

Cassidy, J

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Kind regards.

Information Compliance Helpdesk
Suffolk County Council
Endeavour House
8 Russell Road
Ipswich IP1 2BX
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Dear J Cassidy

Thank you for your request for information below. Unfortunately, Suffolk
County Council is unable to either confirm or deny whether West Sussex
County Council is planning to, is piloting or is using any multi-agency
safeguarding children toolkit for responding to the trafficking
of children.

In the circumstances, we would respectfully suggest that you contact West
Sussex County Council directly.

Kindest regards

Information Compliance Helpdesk
Suffolk County Council
Endeavour House
Russell Road
Ipswich
IP1 2BX
Tel: 01473 264618

Email: [email address]

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Dear Information Compliance Helpdesk,

I have still submitted further related information requests (part
one) at:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ch...

To clarify, I made an error with the second part of my information
request and it should read thus:

Dear Sir or Madam,

In your response to the Guardian Newspaper related information can
you please confirm or deny whether or not Suffolk County Council
Council is planning to, is piloting or is using any multi-agency
safeguarding children toolkit for responding to the trafficking of
children? As well as any information that confirms or denies that
it has fully implimented the national referral mechanism for
identifying and recording victims of trafficking and ensuring that
they are provided with appropriate support wherever they are in the
UK., as required from April 2009, under the Council of Europe
Convention on action against Trafficking in Human Beings

Original request (second part):
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ch...

Yours sincerely,

Cassidy, J

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Information Compliance Helpdesk.

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Act (1998), Freedom of Information Act (2000) and Environmental
Information Regulations (2004), as well as answering general information
governance enquiries.

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Kind regards.

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Suffolk County Council
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Ipswich IP1 2BX
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Dear J Cassidy

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request received on 8 May
2009 regarding earlier FOI request concerning child trafficking.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, and has been given the reference FOI 1756. Please
quote this reference if you need to contact us further.

Kindest regards

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Suffolk County Council
Endeavour House
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Ipswich
IP1 2BX

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Dear J Cassidy

Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request received on 8 May
2009 regarding whether or not Suffolk County Council is planning to, is
piloting or is using any multi-agency safeguarding children toolkit for
responding to the trafficking of children.

Your request is being dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, and has been given the reference FOI 1757. Please
quote this reference if you need to contact us further.

Kindest regards

Information Compliance Helpdesk
Suffolk County Council
Endeavour House
Russell Road
Ipswich
IP1 2BX

Tel: 01473 264618
Email: [email address]
Web: [1]www.suffolkcc.gov.uk

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Dear Information Compliance Helpdesk,

Thank you for your quick acknowledgment of my request. However,
please note there are 2 parts to it, that being:

1)Extract:
"A copy of any or the actual Freedom of Information Act request
made by the Guardian Newspaper, that forms the substantive basis of
said article, together with copies of any and all correspondence
and information shared between yourselves and the Guardian
Newspaper connected to this request, as well as a copy of all the
information disclosed."
More:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ch...

2)Extract
"In your response to the Guardian Newspaper related information can
you please confirm or deny whether or not West Sussex County
Council is planning to, is piloting or is using any multi-agency
safeguarding children toolkit for responding to the trafficking of
children?"
More:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ch...

Yours sincerely,

Cassidy, J

Thank you for your correspondence with Suffolk County Council's
Information Compliance Helpdesk.

We deal with all requests made to the Council under the Data Protection
Act (1998), Freedom of Information Act (2000) and Environmental
Information Regulations (2004), as well as answering general information
governance enquiries.

We will be pleased to get back to you as soon as possible.

Kind regards.

Information Compliance Helpdesk
Suffolk County Council
Endeavour House
8 Russell Road
Ipswich IP1 2BX
Tel.: 01473 264618

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Dear J Cassidy
We are responding to your Freedom of Information (FOI) request received on
8 May 2009. Your request was as follows:

Request;
1)A copy of any or the actual Freedom of Information Act request made by
the Guardian Newspaper, that forms the substantive basis of said article,
together with copies of any and all correspondence and information shared
between yourselves and the Guardian Newspaper connected to this request,
as well as a copy of all the information disclosed.
Response;
Please see the attached document containing information provided by the
Scrutiny and Monitoring department.

If you are unhappy with this response to your request for information, you
can ask for an internal review of the decision by using the council's
complaints procedure. You can find information about the complaints
procedure on the council's website at the following address:

[1]http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemo...

If you are unable to access our website for any reason, please telephone
the Information Compliance Helpdesk on 01473 264618 and we will send you a
copy of our complaints leaflet "Have Your Say".

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the review, you have the right
to ask the Information Commissioner to make a decision on your request for
information.

The Information Commissioner's address is:

Wycliff House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF

Telephone: (01625) 545700
Website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk

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Information supplied in response to any Freedom of Information Act
request may be subject to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You
are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial
research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other
use, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of
the copyright holder.

Most documents supplied by Suffolk County Council will have been produced
by our staff and will be the copyright of the council. However, we may
have sent you information which is the copyright of another person or
organisation. If this is the case, you must ensure that you obtain their
permission before you reproduce any of their information.

If the information we have sent you includes a copyright statement, you
must not alter or remove this statement.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact us quoting the
FOI reference number 1756.

Kindest regards

Information Compliance Helpdesk
Suffolk County Council
Endeavour House
Russell Road
Ipswich
IP1 2BX

Tel: 01473 264618
Email: [email address]
Web: [3]www.suffolkcc.gov.uk

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Dear J Cassidy
Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your
Freedom of Information (FOI) request received on 8 May 2009. Your request
was as follows:

Request:
In your response to the Guardian Newspaper related information can you
please confirm or deny whether or not Suffolk County Council is planning
to, is piloting or is using any multi-agency safeguarding children
toolkit for responding to the trafficking of children? As well as any
information that confirms or denies that it has fully implemented the
national referral mechanism for identifying and recording victims of
trafficking and ensuring that they are provided with appropriate support
wherever they are in the UK., as required from April 2009, under the
Council of Europe Convention on action against Trafficking in Human Beings

Response:
We can confirm that Suffolk County Council is using a multi-agency
Safeguarding Children Toolkit for responding to the trafficking of
children. SCC has also fully implemented the national referral mechanism
for identifying and recording victims of trafficking. Please Note,
Suffolk County Council judge all unaccompanied minors as potentially being
at risk of trafficking.

If you are unhappy with this response to your request for information, you
can ask for an internal review of the decision by using the council's
complaints procedure. You can find information about the complaints
procedure on the council's website at the following address:

[1]http://www.suffolk.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemo...

If you are unable to access our website for any reason, please telephone
the Information Compliance Helpdesk on 01473 264618 and we will send you a
copy of our complaints leaflet "Have Your Say".

If you are dissatisfied with the outcome of the review, you have the right
to ask the Information Commissioner to make a decision on your request for
information.

The Information Commissioner's address is:

Wycliff House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF

Telephone: (01625) 545700
Website: [2]http://www.ico.gov.uk

Copyright
Information supplied in response to any Freedom of Information Act
request may be subject to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You
are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial
research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other
use, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of
the copyright holder.

Most documents supplied by Suffolk County Council will have been produced
by our staff and will be the copyright of the council. However, we may
have sent you information which is the copyright of another person or
organisation. If this is the case, you must ensure that you obtain their
permission before you reproduce any of their information.

If the information we have sent you includes a copyright statement, you
must not alter or remove this statement.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact us quoting the
FOI reference number 1757.

Kindest regards

Information Compliance Helpdesk
Suffolk County Council
Endeavour House
Russell Road
Ipswich
IP1 2BX

Tel: 01473 264618
Email: [email address]
Web: [3]www.suffolkcc.gov.uk

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