Dear Sir or Madam, On the 01/10/07 Aberdeen City Council had a
meeting on Adult Health and Care. Resulting from this meeting a
report was produced entitled A Strategy for Transforming Adult
Services – Health and Care for 2007 to 2010. On the back of this
report there would be a completed strategy including an Equalities
Impact Assessment. Item Page 9 under Human
Rights/Equalities/Diversity on the report of 01/10/07 states The
completed strategy will include an Equalities Impact Assessment. I
would like a copy of the completed strategy including the
Equalities Impact Assessment in whatever format available.

Yours faithfully,

R Domeracki (Mrs). Secretary Future Choices.

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your email, received today. If it is a request for information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 it will be forwarded to the relevant section or sections.

A response to your request for information should be sent to you promptly, and in any event not later than 20 working days from receipt. Please allow postal time.

If you have any enquiries meantime please do not hesitate to contact us.

Yours sincerely

FOI Enquiries Team
Resources Management (City Solicitor)
Aberdeen City Council
Town House
Broad Street
Aberdeen AB10 1AQ

Tel: 01224 523827/522875
Fax: 01224 638556
email: [Aberdeen City Council request email]

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Dear Sir or Madam, On the 01/10/07 Aberdeen City Council had a
meeting on Adult Health and Care. Resulting from this meeting a
report was produced entitled A Strategy for Transforming Adult
Services – Health and Care for 2007 to 2010. On the back of this
report there would be a completed strategy including an Equalities
Impact Assessment. Item Page 9 under Human
Rights/Equalities/Diversity on the report of 01/10/07 states The
completed strategy will include an Equalities Impact Assessment. I
would like a copy of the completed strategy including the
Equalities Impact Assessment in whatever format available.

Yours faithfully,

R Domeracki (Mrs). Secretary Future Choices.

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Dear FOI Compliance , I requested certain information,this should
have been with me by 9 October 2008. As this information has not
been forthcoming.I must remind you that under the Freedom of
Information Act you are breaking the law.

Yours sincerely, Rhonda Domeracki, Secretary Future Choices.

Dear FOI Compliance , I requested certain information,this should
have been with me by 9 October 2008. As this information has not
been forthcoming.I must remind you that under the Freedom of
Information Act you are breaking the law.

Yours sincerely, Rhonda Domeracki, Secretary Future Choices.

Dear Ms Jean Reid FOI Compliance Assistant Resources Management
(City Solicitor), Aberdeen City Council. May I remind you that
Aberdeen City Council is contravening the Freedom for information
act by not answering my request which was due on 9/10/09.This is
now 3 working days past the deadline and if you will not reply.I
will be taking this further. Yours sincerely,

Rhonda Domeracki,Secretary Future Choices.

Dear FOI Enquiries Team, Resources Management (City Solicitor),
Aberdeen City Council.

You sent the copy of the Adult Health and Care strategy to the
wrong FOI question.You stated in that reply the Equalities Impact
Assessment will not be available till the 27th October 2008.

Therefore the questions I need answered is; was there no Equalities
Impact Assessment produced after the original strategy in October
2007 and prior to many changes and closures in Adult Health and
Care including Choices day service.Which the closure of began in
February 2008. Is The Impact assessment being prepared and
available on 27/10/08 the first true assessment produced on the
actual impact on the closures instrumented in the Adult Health and
Care strategy produced on October 2007.

Yours sincerely,

Rhonda Domeracki, Secretary Future Choices.

Dear Ms Domeracki,

Thank you for your emails received this morning. I apologise I treated
your two enquiries as one in my previous response.

Please see below response to your email of this morning:

Enquiry:
"Is The Impact assessment being prepared and available on 27/10/08 the
first true assessment produced on the actual impact on the closures
instrumented in the Adult Health and Care strategy produced on October
2007"?

The closure of Choices was a result of decisions taken as part of the
February budget, and an EHRIA has been completed on all these budget
decisions on 07/05/08. Impact assessments were undertaken on all the
recommendations contained in the Adult Transformation Strategy as part
of the strategic analysis process which took from May 07 through to
September 07. What we need to do, and have not been unable to do due to
annual leave, is to bring these assessments together into one document
following the EHRIA format that can be sent to Ms Domeracki. This task
will be completed by 27/10/08.

I will not close this enquiry until we ensure the completed EHRIA is
available to you. If you are not happy with this response please see
below the Further Information Notice informing you of your rights under
FOISA.

I hope this has helped with your enquiry and you will hear from us in
due course.

Yours sincerely,

Jean Reid
FOI Compliance Assistant

FURTHER INFORMATION

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An applicant who is dissatisfied with the way in which Aberdeen City
Council has dealt with his/her request for information under section
1(1) of the FOISA regime, may, by virtue of section 20 of the FOISA,
require Aberdeen City Council to review its actions and/or decisions in
relation to that request.

If you wish Aberdeen City Council to review its actions and/or
decisions with respect to your request for information, you should write
to the City Archivist, Resources Management, Aberdeen City Council, Old
Town House, Broad Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1AQ. The City Archivist will
arrange for your application for review to be considered by the Review
Panel. The Review Panel will write to you informing you of its decision
by not later than twenty working days after receipt of your request
requiring that a review be made. By virtue of section 21 of the FOISA,
the Review Panel will also provide you with a statement of its reasons
for arriving at the decision it has made.

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than 12th December 2008. Your request for review must be in writing (or
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City Council, and must state the reasons why you are dissatisfied with
the way in which your application for information has been dealt with.

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a Notice issued by Aberdeen City Council under Section 21 of the FOISA,
may apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner, for a decision as to
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information under section 1(1) of the FOISA, has been dealt with by
Aberdeen City Council in accordance with Part 1 of the FOISA.

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Andrews, Fife, KY16 9BS
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FoI Enquiries Team
Resources Management (City Solicitor)
Aberdeen City Council
Town House
Broad Street
Aberdeen AB10 1AQ
Tel: 01224 522875/522521
Fax: 01224 638556
email: [Aberdeen City Council request email]

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Dear Foi Enquiries, In your reply it states that Quote:

"as Adult Transformation Strategy partof the strategic analysis
process which took from May 07 through to September 07."

Does that mean there were assesments produced prior Adult Health
and Care strategy produced on October 2007?

You also state that assesments were made on the Adult Health and
Care strategy produced on October 2007, but the EHRIA will not be
produced until 27/10/08 a year after due to the annual leave.Was
this year off taken by both authors and 7 others involved in the
production of the Adult Health and Care strategy?

Yours sincerely,

Rhonda Domeracki,Future Choices.

Dear Mrs Domeracki,

Please find attached the Adults Transformation Strategy, and the EHRIA's relating to the policy decisions within the Strategy as requested in your email below.

If you have any further FOI requests, please can you send them directly to our FOI email address?

Kind Regards,

Abi

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Dear Ms Tierney, Thank you for information,could you please verify
that no Impact assesments existed prior to the date on the ones
that are in your reply of 24 October 2008.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs R Domeracki

Dear Mrs Domeracki,

Thank you for your email.

The Adults Transformation Strategy was developed between May 07 and September 07, and as part of this process, the team looked at the implications of the proposals that went forward, and some proposals that did not make there way into the final report.

As explained in a previous email, this analysis was not brought together into one EHRIA document. This has now been completed, and the documents shared with yourself.

Regards,

Abi

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