Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust
Harmony House
c/o Cuckoo Hall Academy
Cuckoo Hal Lane
Edmonton
London
N9 8DR
Email: xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
30th April 2021
Our Ref: RI20210039
By email
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Dear Yohannes Lowe
Re: Request for information
Further to our acknowledgement of 24th March, we are now in a position to respond to your
information request.
You sought information regarding formal complaints where a member of school staff bullied a student
or colleague in the academic years 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21 (to date).
Our response acts in part as a refusal notice under Section 17(1) of the Freedom of Information Act.
Whilst we hold the information requested and have provided as much as we possibly can, the
numbers are so low that we feel to provide further details or specifics than that which we have wil ,
by virtue of beginning to identify individuals, engage the exemption of Section 40(2) i.e. personal
data of a third party.
A response udder the Freedom of Information Act is a disclosure to world at large. Providing any
information which could possibly identify someone would breach the fairness element of UK GDPR
Principle 1 as per Article 5(1)(a) in so far as individuals would not reasonably expect any potentially
identifiable information to be made public especially if related to a complaint about them, alleged or
otherwise.
This is an absolute exemption.
We can provide you with the following: -
Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust comprises five schools
www.chat-edu.org.uk.
For your information, any complaints from parents made about staff would be processed under our
parental complaints procedure available on the policy page of any of our school’s websites. Any
complaints from staff about colleagues would be processed in line with standard human resources
procedures. In both cases, the receipt of a complaint is not confirmation that the event complained
about took place. Additionally, and regardless of how you may choose to class it, schools wil classify
bullying in line with the suggestions of the Department for Education
www.gov.uk/bullying-at-school/bullying-a-definition
In the periods requested: -
Cuckoo Hall Academy | Academic year 2019/20
1 x complaint from parent alleging physical bullying of a reception year pupil. Investigation provided
no evidence of the alleged event and the complaint was not upheld.
Heron Hall Academy | Academic year 2019/20
1 x complaint from staff member alleging bullying by another teacher. Investigation found in favour
and the outcome was disciplinary action
We trust our response is useful to you.
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request you have the right to ask for an internal
review. Internal review requests should be submitted within two months of the date of receipt of this
response and should be addressed to FOI Reviews c/o Dr. Donald Graham, Chair of Trust Board,
Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust, Cuckoo Hall Lane, Edmonton, London N9 8DR.
If you are not content with the outcome of the 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.
Telephone 0303 123 111
3 www.ico.org.uk
Yours sincerely
Neil Murphy
Governance and Data Protection Manager | Cuckoo Hall Academies Trust
www.chat-edu.org.uk