Colquhoun Street
Stirling
FK7 7PX
Mr Colin Bruce
What Do They Know.com
Date
15 November 2019
Your Ref
Our Ref
FOI 000026
Enquiries to Hilary Chalmers
By Email
Extension
xxxxxx.xxxxx@xxx.xxx
Direct Line
01786 433284
Dear Mr Bruce
Request for Information under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
We write in response to your enquiry under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act.
1) How many adults over the age of 16 to age 18 with a confirmed diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder/
Asperger's Syndrome Diagnosis (ASD), High Functioning(HF) without significant communication
disorder/Learning Disability from Clackmannanshire & Stirling Council area receive support services in
other authority areas? e.g Perth & Kinross or City of Edinburgh Councils or others
2) How many adults over the age of 18 with a confirmed diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder/ Asperger's
Syndrome Diagnosis (ASD), High Functioning(HF) without significant communication disorder/Learning
Disability from Clackmannanshire & Stirling Council area receive support services in other authority
areas? e.g Perth & Kinross or City of Edinburgh Councils or others.
3) Please state if this and numbers of (Questions 1 & 2) was arranged via Adult Social Work Services via
post Social Work Needs Assessment
4) Please state if this and numbers of (Questions 1 & 2) was arranged via Adult Social Work Services via
post Social Work Needs Assessment and Legal Action under The Equality Act 2010 by way of Reasonable
Adjustment.
Response:
The IJB has considered your request and we can confirm that we do not hold the
requested information. The exemption that we consider applies is set out below:
Section 17(1)(b) – Notice that information is not held.
Where the authority does not hold that information.
We trust this is to your satisfaction. However, under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 if you
are dissatisfied with our response you are entitled to request a review. A request for review must be made in
writing to Miss Deirdre Coyle, Head of Information Governance, NHS Forth Valley, CSD, Colquhoun
Street, Stirling, FK7 7PX or
xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxx.xxx, no later than forty working days from
receipt of the response. Your request must be in permanent form and should state:
• That you are asking for a review of this decision and
• Why you are unhappy with the response you have received.
If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain dissatisfied with this, you then have the
right to ask for advice, assistance or a formal appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner, Kinburn
Castle, Doubledykes Road, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9DS
or www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal
Please feel free to contact us should you require any further advice or assistance.
Yours sincerely
Hilary Chalmers
Lead Freedom of Information Officer
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