Home to school transport consultation

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Dear Cheshire West and Chester Council,

I am aware that in 2013 that a home to school transport consultation took place. I am interested in the consultation relating to Bishop Heber schools and the transport from Tattenhall.

Q1) Please could I have a list of the consultees/stakeholders you consulted with.

Q2) Please could you provide me with the responses from the consultees/stakeholders that were consulted with.

Q3) How many family sibling entitlements have been granted post consultation?

Yours faithfully,

Maria Jones

Cheshire West and Chester Council

RE: Your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000

Case Reference: 101003042930

Dear Ms Jones

Thank you for your email.

It will be treated as a request within the meaning of the Act: this means that we will send you a full response within 20 working days, either supplying you with the information which you want, or explaining to you why we cannot supply it.

If we need any further clarification or there is any problem we will be in touch.

In the meantime if you wish to discuss this further please contact me. It would be helpful if you could quote the log number 3042930.

Yours sincerely

Caroline Timms
FOI Unit

Solutions Team

Cheshire West and Chester Council

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FOI West, Cheshire West and Chester Council

Dear Ms Jones

 

Further to your request for information reference 3042930. 

 

With regards to question 3 we need some clarification please:

 

Q3) How many family sibling entitlements have been granted post
consultation?

 

Does you want to how many siblings have qualified for transport following
the policy change? Sibling is not a criteria used for transport
eligibility, it is however used for admissions.  Do you want to know how
many siblings have been deemed eligible for transport? Is the information
required for Tattenhall residents attending Bishop Heber High School, if
other please advise.

 

We would be grateful if you could clarify as soon as possible.  In the
meantime your request remains on hold.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Ruth Winson

Solutions Assistant

 

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Dear FOI West,

Re your question :-

Does you want to how many siblings have qualified for transport following
the policy change? Sibling is not a criteria used for transport
eligibility, it is however used for admissions. Do you want to know how
many siblings have been deemed eligible for transport? Is the information
required for Tattenhall residents attending Bishop Heber High School, if
other please advise.

To clarify, I would like to know Have there been any exceptions to policy been made, if so, were any of those exceptions to siblings, if exceptions given for any other reasons could you please state how many and the reasons exceptions have been made.

I am a resident of Tattenhall with a child attending Bishop Heber in September.

Thank you

Yours sincerely,

Maria Jones

FOI West, Cheshire West and Chester Council

Dear Ms Jones,

Please accept my apologises we are experiencing a delay in responding to your request which is due today. I anticipate that we will be able to respond by the end of the week.

Yours sincerely

Liz Bennett

Solutions Team
Cheshire West and Chester Council

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FOI West, Cheshire West and Chester Council

Dear Ms Jones,

 

Please accept my apologies we are experiencing a delay in collating the
information you have requested. If we are unable to respond by tomorrow I
will be in contact with you at the start of next week with an update,

 

Yours sincerely

 

Liz Bennett

 

Liz Bennett

Solutions Team

Cheshire West and Chester Council

 

 

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FOI West, Cheshire West and Chester Council

Dear Ms Jones

 

Thank you for your request for information dated 22 May 2015 which has
been logged as 3042930 and has been dealt with under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.  I can confirm that Cheshire West and Chester hold
information relating to your request. For clarity I have reproduced your
questions and appended the response beneath. Please accept my apologises
for the delay in responding to your request.

 

I am aware that in 2013 that a home to school transport consultation took
place. I am interested in the consultation relating to Bishop Heber
schools and the transport from Tattenhall.

 

Q1) Please could I have a list of the consultees/stakeholders you
consulted with.

 

Please see report titled ‘Home to School Transport’ and Appendix 2 on the
link below
[1]http://cmttpublic.cheshirewestandchester...

 

 

Q2) Please could you provide me with the responses from the
consultees/stakeholders that were consulted with.

 

Please see report titled ‘Home to School Transport’ and Appendix 4 on the
link below

[2]http://cmttpublic.cheshirewestandchester...

 

Q3) How many family sibling entitlements have been granted post
consultation?

 

Currently there are approximately 18 cases where exception to policy has
been granted.  This has either been agreed by a Reviewing Officer or by
the Appeals Committee which is in line with the eligibility appeals
procedure.

 

Examples of why these cases were agreed outside of policy are: families
were fleeing domestic violence, families were deemed homeless, health and
medical conditions and cases of bullying.

No exceptions have been granted solely based on siblings.

 

I trust this answers your enquiry.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Liz Bennett

Solutions Team

Cheshire West and Chester Council

 

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