in depth questionnaire -EHE Review

Tania Berlow made this Freedom of Information request to Derbyshire County Council

The request was successful.

From: Tania Berlow

15 October 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,
please supply me with this LA's responses to the second more in
depth short questionnaire for the Badman Review. This questionnaire
also asked for some case studies which of course would need to be
redacted.

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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From: Tania Berlow

13 November 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Derbyshire County
Council's handling of my FOI request 'in depth questionnaire -EHE
Review'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/in...

Yours faithfully,

Tania Berlow

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From: Contact Centre (Chief Executives)
Derbyshire County Council

13 November 2009

Dear Tania

Thank you for contacting Derbyshire County Council. I have forwarded
your email to our Freedom of Information team for reply.

Regards

Vanessa
Call Derbyshire Administrator
Call Derbyshire
08456 058 058

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From: Tania Berlow

4 December 2009

Dear Contact Centre (Chief Executives),

it has now been another 15 working days and I have heard nothing.
I put in the original request in on the 15th October. Please
indicate when the depratment concerned will be able to attach the
questionnaire I am looking for .

Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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From: Contact Centre (Chief Executives)
Derbyshire County Council

4 December 2009

Dear Tania

Thank you for contacting Derbyshire County Council. I have forwarded
your email to our Freedom of Information team for reply.

Regards

Vanessa
Call Derbyshire Administrator
Call Derbyshire
08456 058 058

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From: Tania Berlow

14 January 2010

Dear Contact Centre (Chief Executives),

I am still waiting for a response form this Local Authority.
Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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From: Contact Centre (Chief Executives)
Derbyshire County Council

14 January 2010

Dear Tania,

Thank you for contacting Derbyshire County Council. I have forwarded
your email onto our Freedom of Information Officer for reply.

Regards

Becky
Call Derbyshire Administrator
Call Derbyshire
08456 058 058

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From: Tania Berlow

14 January 2010

Dear Contact Centre (Chief Executives),

thank you for ensuring that someone will deal with this request in
the next week. Sorry to hear of the backlog.

Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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From: Jain,Rajat (Corporate Resources)
Derbyshire County Council

4 February 2010

Dear Ms Berlow

Thank you for your information request dated 15 October 2009.

May I apologise on behalf of the Council for the delay in replying.

Your request has been dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and the answers to your questions are detailed below:

We can confirm that Derbyshire County Council did not respond to the 2^nd
questionnaire for the Badman review, so there is no recorded information
held.

I note that per your correspondence of 13 November 2009, you had asked for
an internal review. I have conducted the same and concluded that the
Council has failed to comply with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 on 2
counts:

1. It has failed to comply with Section 10(1) of the Act in failing to
provide its response within 20 working days as prescribed
2. The Council further failed to comply with the spirit of the Code of
Practice prescribed by the Secretary of State under s45 of the Act in
failing to conduct a review of the request promptly or within a
reasonable period of time.

I hope that this now meets your request.

If you are not content with the outcome of this response or my internal
review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information
Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be
contacted at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water
Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

If you have any queries about this please contact me.

Once again on behalf of the Council, I apologise for the delay in replying

Kindly acknowledge safe receipt

Yours sincerely

Rajat Jain

Solicitor, Interim Information Manager

for David Tysoe, County Solicitor,

Derbyshire County Council

County Hall

Matlock

DE4 3AG

01629 538373

VOIP 38373

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From: Tania Berlow

4 March 2010

Dear Jain,Rajat (Corporate Resources),

thank you for this final response.
This concludes my analysis of the original 25 self selecting Local
Authorities which were used to collect data for the Badman Review.

Of the 25 Local Authorities;
One refuses to answer
One claims they did not fill in the questionnaire (Derbyshire)
two did not actually fill in the number of safeguarding cases nor
number of safeguarding implications/concerns.
A further 2 LAs did not fill in questionnaires but rather discussed
matters by phone.
One LA did not fill in the questionnaire but rather was the pilot
LA - same questions different format.

That is a total of 21 Local Authorities maximum (if indeed
Wolverhampton did take part-they refuse to answer and this number
includes those who answered by telephone or different format)

Therefore the sample size was of 14% of Local authorities and
covered roughly 25% of the entire EHE population known to all
English Local Authorities.

Yours sincerely,

Tania Berlow

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From: Jain,Rajat (Corporate Resources)
Derbyshire County Council

4 March 2010

Dear Ms Berlow

Thank you for your feedback based upon the responses you ahd received.

I shall convey this to the relevant Council Dept.

Yours sincerely

Rajat Jain
Solicitor, Interim Information Manager
for David Tysoe, County Solicitor,
Derbyshire County Council
County Hall
Matlock
DE4 3AG
01629 538373
VOIP 38373

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