Dear B Wilson,

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 (FOIA) – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

The City of London (CoL) acknowledges receipt of your request for information of 13 February 2020.

Public authorities are required to respond to requests within the statutory timescale of 20 working days beginning from the first working day after they receive a request. The Act does not always require public authorities to disclose the information which they hold.

The FOIA applies to the CoL as a local authority, police authority and port health authority. The CoL is the local and police authority for the “Square Mile”, ie the historic City of London, and not for London as a whole. Please see the following page containing a link to a map (‘Explore the City’), which shows the local authority area covered by the CoL:
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/maps/Pag....

The CoL does have some functions, including Port Health Authority functions, which extend beyond the City boundary. For further information please see: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk.

Yours sincerely,

Information Officer
Comptroller & City Solicitor’s Department
City of London
Tel: 020-7332 1243
www.cityoflondon.gov.uk

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Dear B Wilson

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Following receipt of your request for information on 13 February 2020 and
our acknowledgement of 14 February 2020, the City of London (CoL) responds
as follows:

Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, I’d like to make a request
regarding your early years sufficiency reporting.

According to the DfE’s Early education and childcare Statutory guidance
for local authorities, in accordance to the Childcare Act 2006 and the
Childcare Act 2016, LAs are required by legislation to secure sufficient
childcare, so far as is “reasonably practicable, for working parents, or
parents who are studying or training for employment, for children aged
0-14 (or up to 18 for disabled children)”.

As part of this they should also encourage providers to take a sustainable
business approach to planning and signpost providers to resources which
can support them.

Local Authorities are requested to report annually to elected council
members on how they are meeting their duty to secure sufficient childcare.
LA’s are also obliged to make this data available and accessible to
parents.

Therefore, I would like to request your most recent evidence of this
reporting, and where parents are able to access this.

Please find link to the most recent report from the City of London here:
[1]https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services...

Please note that the City (the "Square Mile") has a resident population of
about 8,706* which includes approximately 1,580 children aged up to 19
years old.  The CoL only maintains one school in its capacity as a Local
Education Authority, namely the Sir John Cass’s Foundation Primary School,
a voluntary aided school. Please see the following link providing further
details, including contact details:
[2]http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/...

*Office of National Statistics 2019

We hope this assists.

If you wish to make a complaint about the way the CoL has handled your
enquiry, please make your complaint in writing to email address:
[3][email address]

For a link to the CoL's FOI complaints procedure, please visit the
following page: [4]www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Feedback, at the end of which
is located the FOI complaints procedure. If, having used the CoL's
Complaints Procedure, you are still dissatisfied, you may request the
Information Commissioner to investigate. Please contact: Information
Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: (01625) 545 700. Website: [5]www.ico.org.uk.

Please note that the Act applies to the City of London only as a local
authority, police authority and port health authority.

Subject to any other statutory provisions requiring the CoL to disclose
information, release of information outside the scope of the Act is
subject to the discretion of the CoL.

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Patents Act 1988 (sections 29 and 30) for the purposes of research for
non-commercial purposes, private study, criticism, review and news
reporting, subject to an acknowledgement of the copyright owner.

Yours sincerely,

Executive Support Assistant - Business Unit Team

Community & Children’s Services

Department of Community & Children’s Services | ( 020 7606 3030 |

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