52 rows shown as redacted in July 2018 Payments to Suppliers (Fostering)

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Dear Kent County Council,

On analyzing your open data, we noticed that 52 rows (of fostering related transactions) have been redacted for the July 2018 Council expenditure. If these do not contain personal sensitive information, but payments to IFAs, agencies, we kindly request you to supply us with the un-redacted information.

Thank you,
Yours faithfully,
nikhil prabhu

 

Information request
Our reference: 9943780

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Dear Sir or Madam,
   
Thank you for your email which we received on 5 November 2019.
 
Kent County Council (KCC) acknowledges your request for information, which
we will consider under the relevant legislation (Freedom of Information
Act 2000 and/or Environmental Information Regulations 2004).
 
Assuming KCC holds this information, we will endeavour to supply the data
to you as soon as possible but no later than 3 December 2019 (20 working
days from date of receipt).
 
We will advise you as soon as possible if we do not hold this information
or if there are exemptions to be considered and/or any costs for providing
the information.
 
Please quote our reference - 9943780 in any communication regarding this
particular request.
 

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process your personal data.

 
Yours faithfully
 
 
Carly Wattle
Information Access Officer
Strategic and Corporate Services
+443000417061

 
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Information request
Our reference: 9943780

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Dear Nikhil Prabhu
 
I am writing to ask you to clarify your request. This is because we are
not certain that we have understood your request correctly. Therefore I
should be grateful if you could clarify the below points raised by the
relevant team:
 

We cannot see the 52 lines that are referred to in the FOI request. Please
specify which payments they are querying.
See attached the July invoice spend data, which has been filtered to show
redacted payments with a description of 'Fostering' , and there are only 3
payments that match the criteria.

 
I will not be able to take this matter further without this extra
information from you. Please let me know by 20/01/2020.
 
If I do not hear from you within the timeframe provided, I shall take it
that you do not wish to pursue this request and will consider the request
closed. 
 
Yours faithfully
 
 
Kelly Leeson
Strategic and Corporate Services
 
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Dear Kent County Council,

Thank you for your response.

You are correct, we also cannot see the 52 lines that were referred to in the FOI request. However, it seems the file has since been updated a few months after we had downloaded & analysed its contents. Could you please verify that with the concerned department (that the July 2018 file was updated since being posted publicly)? We ask, because we have spent considerable time & effort to narrow down this issue and it would help ensure to prevent recurrences of such incidents in the future, if there are some checks & balances in place to ensure the transparency of Open Data.

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu

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Information request
Our reference: 9943780

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Dear Nikhil Prabhu
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 22 November 2019.
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
Yours faithfully
 
 
Kelly Leeson
Strategic and Corporate Services
 
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Dear Kent County Council, Kelly Leeson,

Thank you so much for the clarification! We appreciate it.

Yours sincerely,
nikhil prabhu