Dr Susan Bradbury

Dear Miss Griffiths

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom Of Information Act 2000, of which we acknowledge receipt.

Your request has been passed to the appropriate officer to provide a response as soon as possible, and in any event within 20 working days, as required by the Act.

Kind regards

Paul Atkinson, for

Data Management Officer
North Yorkshire County Council
01609 533219 [email address]

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North Yorkshire County Council.

Dear Ms Griffiths

Further to your request for information please see below the Council's responses to your enquiries:
1. Dr Susan Bradbury has been carrying out Independent Expert Witness psychiatric assessments on NYCC cases since June 2009.
2. North Yorkshire County Council has jointly instructed Dr Susan Bradbury to prepare a report within court proceedings in five instances.
3. A borderline personality disorder was diagnosed in four out of the five cases.
4. No children were returned to the care of their parents.
5. One child was placed for adoption.
6. One child remained in long-term foster care under the permanence plan.
7. Two children were placed with kinship carers or other family and friends carers.
8. The Council considers this information to be exempt from disclosure under section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act) as disclosure of the information is likely to prejudice the commercial interests of both the Council and Dr Bradbury. Further we consider the information to be personal information and so exempt under section 40(2) of the Act. As the Council has been unable to seek Dr Bradbury's views on disclosure it is refusing to provide this information as it does not believe that it is in the public interest to disclose this information without having first sought the views of Dr Bradbury. Attached is the Council's appeals procedure for your information.
9. North Yorkshire County Council does not hold this information.

Yours sincerely

Louise Jackson, for

Data Management Officer
North Yorkshire County Council
01609 533219 [email address]

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North Yorkshire County Council.

Dear Miss Griffiths

Thank you for your email. I have logged it as a request for an internal review, which our office will consider, for a response within 20 working days. The reference number is N1106.

I trust that this is acceptable, but if you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Kind regards

Miriam Townsend, for

Data Management Officer
North Yorkshire County Council
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North Yorkshire County Council.

Dear Miss Griffiths,

Please accept our apologises for the delay in responding to your
request for an internal review. Please now find attached the response
and our appeals document

Kind regards

Data Management Officer
North Yorkshire County Council
01609 533219 [email address]

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11/06/2010 16:07 >>>
Dear Data Management Officer,

As my request for an internal review re this FOI request has now
exceeded the 20 working day time limit, I will refer the matter
to
the Information Commissioners Office for investigation without
further delay or communication with NYCC.

Yours sincerely,

Miss A. Griffiths

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dear Miss Griffiths

My conclusions following the review of June 2010 still apply; your request could not be answered by research going back so far and yet keep within the cost limit. If you would like to make a new request concerning events in 2005 please do so, setting out what information you want, and including the evidence you have, and anything else that would help us locate it such as dates, locations and names.

yours sincerely
Robert Beane

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