Childcare Sufficiency

The request was successful.

Catherine Williams

Dear Hartlepool Council,

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.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

Catherine Williams

Freedomofinformation, Hartlepool Council

Thank you for your email which has been received by the Council. 

If your request relates to official council held information it will be
handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or
Environmental Information Regulations 2005. We may need to contact you
for further information or clarification. If you do not hear from us,
please accept this email as acknowledgment of your request. You will
receive a final response within the next 20 working days.

If you are writing to find out what information the Council holds about
you, and wish to exercise your ‘Right to Access’ under data protection
legislation (General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act
2018) your request will be processed and responded to within one month of
receiving the request. 

If you have any queries regarding data protection, please do not hesitate
to contact us at  [1][email address] or on 01429 523087.

Following completion of a freedom of information request/ data protection
request, the information relating to the request and response will be
retained by the Council for three years.  For further information on how
the Council process your personal data in accordance with the Data
Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulations, please
visit [2]www.hartlepool.gov.uk/gdpr

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Legal
Division on 01429 523087 or email
[3][email address] .

 

 

[4]GoldAward-Hartlepool

show quoted sections

FOI Responses, Hartlepool Council

Dear Catherine

 

Further to your request for information, I can advise as below and
attached.

 

We consider that the absolute exemption set out in Section 21 (Information
accessible by other means) applies to the information requested because
the information requested is already reasonably accessible elsewhere.

                          

This information can be found at the following link (Children’s Services
Committee – 3^rd September 2019):

 

[1]https://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/info/20028...

 

We hope that this information deals with your request, however 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 to
[2][email address] within two months of the date of receipt
of the response to your original request.

 

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, [3]www.ico.org.uk

 

Elena Lilley| Legal Administration Officer

Hartlepool Borough Council

Tel: (01429) 523647 | Ext: 3647

Email: [4][email address]

Web: [5]hartlepool.gov.uk

Facebook: [6]facebook.com/hartlepoolcouncil 

Twitter: [7]twitter.com/HpoolCouncil  

 

From: Catherine Williams
[[8]mailto:[FOI #646407 email]]

Sent: 13 February 2020 22:05

To: Freedomofinformation <[9][Hartlepool Council request email]>

Subject: Freedom of Information request - Childcare Sufficiency

 

Dear Hartlepool Council,

 

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.

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Catherine Williams

 

[10]GoldAward-Hartlepool

show quoted sections