Out of County school transport (SEN)

Thank you for your recent request for information held by Isle of
Anglesey County Council. For your information, this is not an
automatically generated response.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the
Environmental Information Regulations 2004, we aim to respond to your
request within 20 working days. In some instances we may be unable to
achieve this deadline, in which case we will advise you of the likely
timescale within which the response will be provided.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for further advice or guidance
relating to the above.

Yours sincerely

Huw Pierce Pritchard

Corporate Information Officer
Isle of Anglesey County Council

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15/08/2010 11:25 >>>
Dear Isle of Anglesey Council,

I understand that Ynys Mon is a small County and needs to send
some
children with special needs to out of County placements.

Could you please list for me the number of Parents that
personally
transport their SEN child to and from an out of county school for
the LEA from April 2005 to April 2010?

Could you also list how many of these Parents travel more than
500
miles a week getting the child to and from school from April 2005
to April 2010?

Yours faithfully,

Miss K Williams

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Further to your recent correspondence with regards to your FOI request.
The officer that holds the information that you have requested is
currently not in work, but is due back before the end of this week. As a
result we therefore have been unable to collate all of the information
requested by today. This request will be dealt with as a matter of
priority and I will forward the information to you as soon as possible.
I apologise for the delay in responding to your request.

Your sincerley

Margaret Williams Owen
Prif Swyddog Gweinyddol/Chief Administration Officer
Adran Addysg a Hamdden
Education and Leisure Department

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Apologies for the delay in responding to your request. As explained in
the e-mail sent to you on 14/09/2010 the officer that had the
information that you had requested has been away and due to other
unforseen work commitments was unable to respond until today.Please see
below our responses

They have stated that no parents regularly transported their SEN child
to and from and out of county school for the LEA between April 2005 and
April 2010. Most pupils travel to and from school in a taxi provided by
arrangement with education authority/social services department
dependant upon whether the pupil is "looked after" or not. Parents may
ocassionally choose to take their child to school in their own car
rather than travel by taxi. When this happens they may request travel
expenses, which they Authority usually reimburses as long as the costs
were less than that of a taxi. One parent was employed for a short term
to escort his child on the train journey to and from school. The
arrangements were not satisfactory and alternative transport (taxi) was
put in place. This was the only case of parents travelling more than
500 miles a week getting their child to and from school.

Yours sincerely

Margaret Williams Owen
Prif Swyddog Gweinyddol/Chief Administration Officer
Adran Addysg a Hamdden
Education and Leisure Department

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Thank you for your reply. The information that was forwarded to you was
on the basis of parents that personally transport their SEN child to and
from and out of County school on a contract or employment basis by the
LEA and the information supplied is correct. Your FOI request may be
open to more than one interpretation and I apologise if we have
interpreted it in the wrong context. Could you please clarify in what
context you want the information.

With regards to failing to supply the transport and residential costs
for these children, this request was not in your FOI request which we
received on 16 August 2010 therefore no such information was prepared.

Yours sincerely

Margaret Williams Owen
Prif Swyddog Gweinyddol/Chief Administration Officer
Adran Addysg a Hamdden
Education and Leisure Department

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28/09/2010 10:06 >>>
Dear MARGARET OWEN,

Thank you for the above information. However you fail to answer
the
questions:
"Could you please list for me the number of Parents that
personally
transport their SEN child to and from an out of county school"
"Could you also list how many of these Parents travel more than
500
miles a week"

I'm still waiting for the internal review as you have taken too
long to process this FOI request. Also you have supplied false
information regarding the numbers of parents travelling more than
500 miles a week for the LEA. You have failed to supply the
transport and residential costs for these children.

Please remember this is a public request, any deliberate lies
will
be exposed and looked into.

Yours sincerely,

Miss K Williams

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Please see attached e-mail that was sent via e-mail at 10.24 am
today plus copy letter.

Dear Miss Williams,

Please see attached letter acknowledging your application for an
Internal Review regarding your FOI request.

Regards,

Beryl Jones Customer Care Officer.

Dear Miss Williams, The following documents were e-mailed (reply to
your e-mail dated 8.10.10) to you yesterday afternoon but having
checked this morning I note that they have not been received.
Please see attached the result of the internal review held on
13.10.10. Regards Beryl Jones

Dear Miss Williams,
With reference to the 2 e-mails received from you today, I would inform
you that the Internal Review has taken place and the Panel has nothing
further to add.
I therefore advise you to contact the Information Commissioner's
Office - the contact details were included in the letter sent to you
yesterday.

Regards
Beryl Jones
Customer Care Officer

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14/10/2010 13:37 >>>
Dear Beryl Jones,

Your internal review is very one sided as would be expected. I
will
take back my comment "lying" but still think that you are
deliberately supplying false information. I look forward to
seeing
the information requested very soon.

Yours sincerely,

Miss K Williams

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